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  title info:
    title: Judicial rhapsodies
    sub title: rhetoric and fundamental rights in the Supreme Court
  name:
    name part: Coulson, Doug
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  name:
    name part: Amherst College
    name part: Press,
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: distributor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 276 pages)
  abstract: All judges legitimize their decisions in writing, but US Supreme Court justices depend on public acceptance to a unique degree. Previous studies of judicial opinions have explored rhetorical strategies that produce legitimacy, but none have examined the laudatory, even operatic, forms of writing Supreme Court justices have used to justify fundamental rights decisions. Doug Coulson demonstrates that such "judicial rhapsodies" are not an aberration but a central feature of judicial discourse. First examining the classical origins of divisions between law and rhetoric, Coulson tracks what he calls an epideictic register--highly affective forms of expression that utilize hyperbole, amplification, and vocabularies of praise--through a surprising number of landmark Supreme Court opinions. Judicial Rhapsodies recovers and revalues these instances as significant to establishing and maintaining shared perspectives that form the basis for common experience and cooperation.
  note: Doug Coulson
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239 -256) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Supreme Court
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Supreme Court
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Judicial process
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Judicial opinions
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Rhetoric
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Law
    geographic: United States
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights
    geographic: United States
  classification: KF8742
  classification: 347.7326
  identifier: 9781943208470
  identifier: 1943208476
  identifier: 9781943208463
  identifier: 1943208468
  identifier: 22573/cats509053 JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.12752816
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 230301
    record change date: 20230315152723.3
    record identifier: in00004650325
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng