Legal Discourse Analysis
Code
LL101
Department
Área de Ensino
Credits
4
Teacher in charge
José Lamego
Weekly hours
3
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Course’s aims are: - to train students to understand the autonomous nature of discourse as a holder of meaning, as well as the different approaches to discourse analysis and to the modeling of meaning; - to introduce students in the application of previous knowledge to legal discourse; - to initiate the students in identifying the underlying discursive structures and models of samples of legal discourse, as a tool for dogmatic tasks (such as interpretation) or as a technique of approaching legal texts from a non dogmatic perspective: sociological, historical, studies of legibility and impact, etc.; - to introduce students in the techniques of manual or automated content analysis of legal texts.
Bibliography
Introdução à linguística e à análise do discurso: Texto a fornecer pelo regente. [First approach: AAVV, Enciclopédia Einaudi: vol. 2. Linguagem-Enunciação; vol. 11. Oral/Escrito, Argumentação; vol. 31. Signo, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional–Casa da Moeda; ECO, Umberto, 1989, Obra Aberta, Lisboa, Difel.] Teoria da argumentação: Manuel Atienza, Las razones del derecho. Teorías de la argumentación jurídica, Ciudad de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, 2003 (PDF version: http://www.direitodoestado.com.br/bibliotecavirtual_detail.asp?cod=398); Manuel Atienza, “Para una teoría de la argumentación jurídica”, Alicante, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2001 (digital edition from Doxa, no. 8 (1990), pp. 39-61); Manuel Atienza, “Las razones del derecho. Sobre la justificación de las decisiones judiciales” Isonomía. Revista de Teoría y Filosofía del Derecho. No. 1, October 1994, 50-68 (=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras )] [Chaim Perelman, & Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, The new rhetoric: A treatise on argumentation. (J. Wilkinson and P. Weaver, English trans.). Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969 (excerpts). (French orig. Traité de l’argumentation. La nouvelle rhétorique, Paris, PUF, 1958: Castilian transl., Tratado de la argumentación: la nueva retórica, Madrid, Gredos, D.L. 1989; Portuguese transl.., São Paulo, Martins Fontes, 2002)]; [Robert Alexy, Theorie der juristischen Argumentation. Die Theorie des rationalen Diskurses als Theorie der juristischen Begründung, Frankfurt/Main, Suhrkamp, 1983 (trad. cast.: Teoría de la argumentación jurídica [...] , Castilian transl. by M. Atienza & I. Espejo, Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, Madrid, 1989; Portuguese translation: Teoria da argumentação jurídica [...], rev. by Claudia Toledo, São Paulo, Landy Editora, 2005) (excerpts)]; Content analysis: Klaus Krippendorff, Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (2nd edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004. Carl W. Roberts, Text analysis for the social sciences: methods for drawing statistical inferences from texts and transcripts, New Jersey,1997 The content analysis Guidebook on line, http://academic.csuohio.edu/kneuendorf/content/ Steve Stemler, An Overview of Content Analysis, http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=7&n=17 Mark A. Hall & Ronald F. Wright, Systematic Content Analysis of Judicial Opinions, http://epstein.law.northwestern.edu/research/WrightHall.pdf
Teaching method
Theoretical classes on the entire programme and practical classes to the rehearse applications. Short papers could be asked to the students, focused either on the analysis of textual samples or content analysis of legal texts.
Evaluation method
The mark obtained in the final written examination may be improved by up to two marks according to the average of the mark of the written examination and of the work done in practical classes. Work done in practical classes shall be assessed by continuous assessment on a scale from zero to twenty.