LAW AND RHETORIC; A STUDY OF PERSUASIVE LANGUAGE USED IN BAIL APPLICATIONS AT LAHORE COURTS.
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2018
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University of Management and Technology
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Language is not only used as a way of communication but many people correspondingly use it for persuasion by using different rhetoric devices present in the language. In the bail applications for instance, lawyers use these rhetoric devices to persuade the judges to control their responses. By using persuasive language, they make different claims about their clients on how they are innocent and should get the bail. Though, multiple researches have been done on persuasive language and how language is used in different situations to persuade people, the topic remains under-researched. The present study, for this reason, deals with textual analysis on the influential features of language used by the lawyers in the bail applications. This study provides a deep understanding of how language used by the lawyers can become persuasive in the bail applications. Understanding rhetoric equipped lawyers with the strategies they need to persuade judges successfully and get bail of clients. However, rhetoric is not a part of education in law schools. To explore the use of persuasive language in bail applications the study is drawn on the data collected from original bail applications and court’s orders regarding those bail applications. A model developed by Miles and Huberman (1994) is used in this research to summarize the collected data and it also helps to analyze the collected data. Though, the researcher selects mix method approach to analyze the collected data. Under the broader paradigm of qualitative research design, the researcher selects a framework of critical discourse analysis (CDA) presented by Fairclough in (1989) along with the model developed by Miles and Huberman (1994), especially developed to qualitatively analyze data and casual comparative research under the broader paradigm of quantitative research design.
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Supervisor: Dr. Maria Isabel Maldonado
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Quantitative research design, Casual comparative research, Persuasive language in bail applications, Correspondingly use