The Rhetorical Structure of Argumentative Discourse as Expressed in Israeli Supreme Court Verdicts

Analyzing the Structure of Argumentative Discourse

Consider a discourse situation where the speaker tries to convince the hearer of a particular point of view. The first task for the hearer is to understand what it is the speaker wants him to believe-to analyze the structure of the argument being presented, before judging credibility and eventually responding. This paper describes a model for the analysis of arguments that includes: • a theory ...

Physician-assisted suicide and the Supreme Court: the Washington and Vacco verdicts.

In June 1997, the Supreme Court decided that statutes proscribing physicians from providing lethal medication for use by competent, terminally ill patients do not violate the Due Process or Equal Protection Clauses of the Constitution. The Court returned the question of physician-assisted suicide to the states, but did not foreclose future review of state laws that may be too restrictive of car...

The Supreme Court as a Legislature

Supreme Court

Th ere is no doubt that the U.S. Supreme Court has in-fl uenced the politics of the country. As a public body, the Court is a highly visible part of the federal government. Th is has always been so, even when the justices met briefl y twice a year in the drafty basement of the Capitol. Yet the idea that the Court itself is a political institution is controversial. Th e justices themselves have ...

on the relationship between using discourse markers and the quality of expository and argumentative academic writing of iranian english majors

the aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency and the type of discourse markers used in the argumentative and expository writings of iranian efl learners and the differences between these text features in the two essay genres. the study also aimed at examining the influence of the use of discourse markers on the participants’ writing quality. to this end the discourse markers us...