An applied genre analysis of civil judgments: the case of Mainland China

Authors

  • Zhengrui Han City University of Hong Kong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v19i1.113

Keywords:

Chinese judicial reform, applied genre analysis, civil litigation, Chinese judges' writing styles, discursive practices

Abstract

China officially launched its ongoing judicial reform in 1997 (Jiang 1997) and since then a number of aspects of litigation have been changed. One of the notable changes occurred to judges’ writing of civil judgments, i.e. judicial opinions of civil cases, and these received the focus of examination in the present research.

Author Biography

  • Zhengrui Han, City University of Hong Kong
    Zhengrui Han acquires his PhD from the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong and now is an English lecturer in the College of Foreign Studies, Jinan University (Guangzhou, China). He is a participant of the international RGC (HKSAR) CERG funded research project [No. 9041191 (CityU 1501/06H)] – International Commercial Arbitration Practices: A Discourse Analytical Study (led by Vijay K. Bhatia). His research interests are legal discourse, genre analysis, professional communication, and contemporary Chinese discourse and he publishes in the Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse & Society.

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Published

2012-06-22

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Thesis Abstracts

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How to Cite

Han, Z. (2012). An applied genre analysis of civil judgments: the case of Mainland China. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 19(1), 113-117. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v19i1.113