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

• Main Author: Jawid, Maria Jocelyn Garcia
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2008
• Subjects: Law—Language; Law reports, digests, etc. > Philippines; Regional Trial Court (Las Pinas, Philippines); Linguistics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/219; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_doctoral/article/1218/viewcontent/CDTG004482_P.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

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...