Multi-modal argumentation and rhetoric in judicial proceedings

Novak, Marko

doi:10.1080/10511431.2019.1708686

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“…It is this rhetorical aspect of argumentation (Tindale, 2004) that brings legal arguments closer to the real life of arguers and their audiences. When legal argumentation is taken as rhetorical argumentation, we not only recognize logical arguments (logos) but also kisceral (ethos), emotional (pathos), and visceral (physis) that arguers use in order to persuade their audiences (Novak, 2020a).…”

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“…They both invite alternate modes of arguing (i.e. emotional and kisceral being intuitive arguments such as personal values), as not strictly legal materials in a legal case, to fill out "blank" (logical) legal arguments (see also Novak, 2020aNovak, , 2020b. Arguers such as judges are embedded in their social and psychological environments that they share with their audiences, and the legal logical mode through their arguments is only able to generalize clear legal situations.…”

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Visual as Multi-Modal Argumentation in Law

Novak

2021

Bratislava Law Review

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Although the legal context is a formalized framework, in judicial proceedings there is also room for multi-modal argumentation. To the traditional logical mode, multi-modal argumentation theory has added three additional modes (the so-called “alternate” modes: visceral, kisceral, and emotional). They complement the logical mode in unclear legal cases, those with vague and ambiguous premises (both legal and factual). What is discussed here is visual argumentation as part of the visceral mode. Visual arguments can be appropriate in legal argumentation as evidence used to determine the lower premise. However, “thick” visuals invite alternate arguments to be applied in legal argumentation. This “invitation” is not exactly the same as with “thick” verbal texts because what is at issue are different semiotic resources.

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Visual as Multi-Modal Argumentation in Law

Novak

2021

Bratislava Law Review

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“…This fundamental principle represents the most prominent new area of research (Kjeldsen, 2018) in the digital era. A logical mode is an imperative norm of argumentation that fosters academicians to advance both dialectical and rhetorical dimensions (Novak, 2020). A wide range of academic texts, therefore, seeks to reveal diverse discourses and rhetorical modes that transform the clarity of messages, textual productivity, and resistance to specific meanings (Polezzi, 2014).…”

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Rearticulating Rhetorical Modes of Apologies in Academic Texts: EFL University Studentsâ€™ Voices

Sudirman

Karjono

2020

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The objectives of this research are 1) to describe the frequencies of rhetorical modes of apologies in academic texts written by EFL university students, and 2) to find out problems that they face when constructing rhetorical modes of apologies through exposition, narration, description and argumentation genres of writing. Using documents and interviews, this qualitative research mainly deals with the purposive sampling technique, data reduction, and display concerning rhetorical modes of apologies and problems on constructing them. The research results show that the interpretation of students' rhetorical expressions is meta-pragmatic based on interactions, linguistic nuances, and rhetorical meanings. Rhetorical modes of apologies influence the language production, contextual expressions, and dissemination of messages to audiences or readers. The language used in the rhetorical modes of apologies is integrally connected to one's identity, personality, and situation. Therefore, several efforts are made to see how linguistic differences in a series of interactions lead to denials, avoidance of responsibility, reduction of offensiveness, corrective action, and mortification. The interview results outline that rhetorical modes of apologies function as an integral part of interests, utilities, and moral values instead of some problems the students faced while writing the academic texts.

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Multi-modal argumentation and rhetoric in judicial proceedings

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Visual as Multi-Modal Argumentation in Law

Rearticulating Rhetorical Modes of Apologies in Academic Texts: EFL University Studentsâ€™ Voices

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