@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002650,
 author = {Takahashi, Hiroshi},
 journal = {語学研究, ICU Language Research Bulletin},
 month = {},
 note = {Although the genre of "legal memorandum" is an area of crucial importance for
international students enrolled in graduate-level law degree programs in the U.S., few
studies have been conducted to reveal how those advanced learners of English are
coping with the challenge of drafting persuasive legal memoranda. As an attempt to
narrow this gap, the present study offers an in-depth text analysis of modal expressions
by six international students at a U.S. law school from a functional perspective as
(epistemic) modality captures the most critical function of a legal memo, namely
predicting the "probable" outcome of a legal case with careful examination of its
strengths and weaknesses, as assessed against prior case judgments. The study draws
on functional systemic linguistics as its conceptual framework and examines how
those international students realize modality-related meanings through particular
lexcogrammatical resources, including modal verbs.},
 pages = {1--15},
 title = {Modality in L2 Legal Writing: A Functional Analysis},
 volume = {24},
 year = {2010}
}