Abstract

CAMARILLO HINOJOZA, Hugo Manuel. Literacy in law. Approaches from a corpus of essays on legal argumentation. Leng. [online]. 2021, vol.49, n.1, pp.135-164.  Epub Jan 20, 2021. ISSN 0120-3479.  https://doi.org/10.25100/lenguaje.v49i1.10485.

Law is language and legal argumentation is a linguistic activity. The skills and abilities for textual comprehension and production are essential for the learning and professional practice of law given the fundamental and recurrent nature of the articulation of oral and written discourse. The aim of the paper is to report the findings on functional literacy in 36 essays written by law students in a Mexican university in the context of academic literacy. The topic of the prompt essay was the importance of legal argumentation. Results in this paper are mainly concerned with the structure of the text, the handling and insertion of voices and stance-taking devices. One of the conclusions is that teachers must foster the development of text comprehension and production skills in law students to improve their argumentative competence because it will affect their professional practice.

Keywords : academic literacy; functional literacy; disciplinary literacy; legal literacy; legal argumentation.

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