BOOSTING IN DISSENTING OPINIONS: TYPES AND LEXICAL REALIZATIONS

BOOSTING IN DISSENTING OPINIONS: TYPES AND LEXICAL REALIZATIONS

Author:  О.А. Boginskaya

Affiliation:  Irkutsk National Research Technical University

Abstract:  The paper explores the role of boosting as a metadiscourse feature used by justices in dissenting opinions to challenge the majority decisions and convince an audience.
The aim is to identify the types of boosting and lexical items used for indicating certainty and commitment. As the study aims to analyze how boosting is realized linguistically, the methods of quantitative and interpretative analysis were applied.
The study revealed that the justices make extensive use of boosters to show disagreement and persuade the audience to agree with their views. For this purpose, they use four types of boosting, including certainty boosters, intensity boosters, solidarity boosters, and extremity boosters with a quantitative predominance of the first type.

Keywords:  dissenting opinion, boosting, metadiscourse, legal discourse.

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For citation:  Boginskaya, O. A. (2023). Boosting In Dissenting Opinions: Types and Lexical Realizations. Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki, 3, 106-111.

Pages:  106-111