Abstract

This article reflects on how the Chilean legal community relates to the society through the production of discourse. The aim is to establish the basis of a model of discourse relations between legal experts and laymen. To achieve this goal we analyze how members of the legal community create, set and using legal knowledge transmitted mainly responding to texts discourse genres. We conclude that the analysis of the legal community should be sensitive to the discursive dynamics of the community and how they exchange goods and services through the use of texts