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June 21, 2026Argumentation and Advocacy

Mapping adherence to “facts as basis, law as criteria”: a semantic gravity analysis of legal argumentation

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Overview

Evaluates adherence to judicial principles in legal argumentation, indicating implications for fairness in legal practice.

Key Points

  • The aim is to evaluate how judges adhere to the principle of using facts and law in their argumentation.
  • Conducted an analysis using semantic gravity from Legitimation Code Theory.
  • Investigated context-dependence of meanings in Chinese judicial judgements.
  • Identified phases of legal argumentation including introducing, assembling, and interpreting.
  • Legal argumentation exhibits various phases with differing strengths of semantic gravity.
  • Argumentation often displays semantic waves indicating the balance of factual and legal aspects.
  • Dynamics of semantic gravity reveal varying levels of adherence to judicial principles.

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Wentao Xu (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a377edf24f042ddf4c59c78https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2026.2687335
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