Persuasion category in Statutes of Lithuania

• Authors: Lizisowa M. T.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main topic of this essay is to prove the presence of persuasion in historic legal text. The authoress has analyzed legislator's statements, included in articles of Statutes of Lithuania, as speech acts. There are two main groups of speech acts: act of stating legal norms and act of persuasion. First of them is verbalized by performative verb (ustawiamy) possessing illocutionary force and modal deontic expressions possessing perlocutionary force (mosty moscic... beda powinni, karan byc ma). Second of them is an act of convincing of rightness of stating. It is verbalized by argumentative expressions (Tez My obaczywszy na szkode ziemska, jako jedni z drugimi w sasiedztwie wasn miedzy soba maja) and valuative expressions (okolo obrazenia Majestatu naszego abo zdrady Rzeczypospolitej, ku sromocie a zelzywosci). In Statutes of Lithuania stating and persuasion are distinct textual categories. Comparison of persuasion category in modern and historic legal text illustrates vast differences in legislative techniques.

Keywords

EN

LEGAL NORMS' STATING; PERSUASION IN LEGAL TEXTS; STATUTES OF LITHUANIA (SPEECH ACTS)

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Slawistyki PAN
• Journal: Acta Baltico-Slavica
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 31
• Pages: 141-147
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lizisowa M. T.

• M.T. Lizisowa, Akademia Pedagogiczna w Krakowie, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Katedra Jezyka Polskiego,ul. Podchorazych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland

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CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02515218