An applied genre analysis of civil judgments: the case of Mainland China
Issue: Vol 19 No. 1 (2012)
Journal: International Journal of Speech Language and the Law
Subject Areas: Linguistics
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: Zhengrui Han
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