A descriptive analysis of the socio-cultural patterns of selected legal decisions of Philippine Regional Trial Court

Most studies on legal language and legal decisions of courts have primarily focused only on their lexico-grammatical features including macrostructure pattern that give this discourse type its general characteristics. The present paper also covers the same textual parameters, but also looks at other...

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Main Author: Jawid, Maria Jocelyn Garcia
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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:etd_doctoral-12182023-12-05T23:33:35Z A descriptive analysis of the socio-cultural patterns of selected legal decisions of Philippine Regional Trial Court Jawid, Maria Jocelyn Garcia Most studies on legal language and legal decisions of courts have primarily focused only on their lexico-grammatical features including macrostructure pattern that give this discourse type its general characteristics. The present paper also covers the same textual parameters, but also looks at other extra-textual features that similarly affect the way meanings from these texts are negotiated. Twenty sample cases from the Regional Trial Court of Las Pinas City are included in this study. All sample texts were subjected to rigorous content and linguistic analysis. The linguistic analysis covered the lexico-grammatical features that were identified, tabulated, and interpreted using several theoretical perspectives. These same lexico-grammatical features, in turn, were analyzed for a whole range of socio-cultural perspectives: patriarchal tenor, ambiguity, and indirectness. Essentially, the study found that the sample legal decisions of courts operate using three organizational moves that include Preliminaries, Main Body of the Decision, and Judgment. In the context of the socio-cultural patterns implicated in the text, the analysis yielded the following results - that these texts are inherently ideological. As language is used to help resolve issues and other disputes, the sample court decisions considered for this study betray a power structure that favors one gender group over another. The deployment of the generic pronoun he in the sample documents helps position a very male- iii - centered orientation. The practice of marking women in relation to a man and the overt use of sexist language all contribute to this point-of-view. Through the lexico-grammatical investigation of the use of nominalization and passive verbs, and other instances of verbal excesses, a clearer connection has been established between the linguistic and socio-cultural features of the texts. 2008-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/219 https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_doctoral/article/1218/viewcontent/CDTG004482_P.pdf Dissertations English Animo Repository Law—Language Law reports, digests, etc.--Philippines Regional Trial Court (Las Pinas, Philippines) Linguistics
institution De La Salle University
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country Philippines
Philippines
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topic Law—Language
Law reports, digests, etc.--Philippines
Regional Trial Court (Las Pinas, Philippines)
Linguistics
spellingShingle Law—Language
Law reports, digests, etc.--Philippines
Regional Trial Court (Las Pinas, Philippines)
Linguistics
Jawid, Maria Jocelyn Garcia
A descriptive analysis of the socio-cultural patterns of selected legal decisions of Philippine Regional Trial Court
description Most studies on legal language and legal decisions of courts have primarily focused only on their lexico-grammatical features including macrostructure pattern that give this discourse type its general characteristics. The present paper also covers the same textual parameters, but also looks at other extra-textual features that similarly affect the way meanings from these texts are negotiated. Twenty sample cases from the Regional Trial Court of Las Pinas City are included in this study. All sample texts were subjected to rigorous content and linguistic analysis. The linguistic analysis covered the lexico-grammatical features that were identified, tabulated, and interpreted using several theoretical perspectives. These same lexico-grammatical features, in turn, were analyzed for a whole range of socio-cultural perspectives: patriarchal tenor, ambiguity, and indirectness. Essentially, the study found that the sample legal decisions of courts operate using three organizational moves that include Preliminaries, Main Body of the Decision, and Judgment. In the context of the socio-cultural patterns implicated in the text, the analysis yielded the following results - that these texts are inherently ideological. As language is used to help resolve issues and other disputes, the sample court decisions considered for this study betray a power structure that favors one gender group over another. The deployment of the generic pronoun he in the sample documents helps position a very male- iii - centered orientation. The practice of marking women in relation to a man and the overt use of sexist language all contribute to this point-of-view. Through the lexico-grammatical investigation of the use of nominalization and passive verbs, and other instances of verbal excesses, a clearer connection has been established between the linguistic and socio-cultural features of the texts.
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author Jawid, Maria Jocelyn Garcia
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title A descriptive analysis of the socio-cultural patterns of selected legal decisions of Philippine Regional Trial Court
title_short A descriptive analysis of the socio-cultural patterns of selected legal decisions of Philippine Regional Trial Court
title_full A descriptive analysis of the socio-cultural patterns of selected legal decisions of Philippine Regional Trial Court
title_fullStr A descriptive analysis of the socio-cultural patterns of selected legal decisions of Philippine Regional Trial Court
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