Abstract
This paper aims at investigating some discursive features of blawgs, namely legal blogs in which legal experts disseminate and popularise their expertise. More specifically, it involves a corpus-assisted discourse study of the ways in which situational contexts affect the practices and strategies used to represent, construct and communicate legal knowledge. A comparison is drawn between two corpora representative of two different types of communication: a selection of posts written by legal experts for other experts (symmetrical communication) and posts written by legal experts for laypersons (asymmetrical communication). Combining qualitative and quantitative observations, the analysis shows that, in symmetrical communication, the emphasis is on the blogger’s subjective interpretation of legal texts and on his role as knowledge disseminator, as indicated by the predominance of epistemic modality. In asymmetrical communication, on the other hand, the prevalence of deontic modality shifts the focus on to the reader as addressee of the advice, instructions and information provided by the legal expert.
Highlights
This paper aims at investigating some discursive features of blawgs, namely legal blogs in which legal experts disseminate and popularise their expertise
Combining qualitative and quantitative observations, the analysis shows that, in symmetrical communication, the emphasis is on the blogger’s subjective interpretation of legal texts and on his role as knowledge disseminator, as indicated by the predominance of epistemic modality
El análisis preliminar de los patrones fraseológicos alrededor de un término clave como ‘derecho*’ ha confirmado cada uno de los elementos sintetizados en la Tabla 2; es más, los resultados apuntan a que en Blawgs_1, la fraseología desempeña una función primariamente estilística, mientras que en Blawgs_2 cumple una función mucho más importante porque le sirve al bloguero a encajar el conocimiento especializado en rutinas discursivas que el lector lego pueda reconocer y acostumbrarse a utilizar en su día a día
Summary
This paper aims at investigating some discursive features of blawgs, namely legal blogs in which legal experts disseminate and popularise their expertise. La Tabla 5 sugiere que, con respecto a Blawgs_2, en Blawgs_1 lo dicho tiende a presentarse como resultado de un acto interpretativo personal, resaltando, por un lado, la función y la personalidad del bloguero como mediador de conocimiento y, por otro lado, las fuentes de ese conocimiento, correspondientes a los textos jurídicos no mediados.
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