The Pragmatic Turn in Law : : Inference and Interpretation in Legal Discourse /

The Pragmatic Turn in Law : : Inference and Interpretation in Legal Discourse / / ed. by Janet Giltrow, Dieter Stein.

In legal interpretation, where does meaning come from? Law is made from language, yet law, unlike other language-related disciplines, has not so far experienced its "pragmatic turn" towards inference and the construction of meaning. This book investigates to what extent a pragmatically bas...

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MitwirkendeR:
Allott, Nicholas,
Arapinis, Alexandra,
Condello, Angela,
Fee, Margery,
Giltrow, Janet,
Horn, Laurence R.,
Liao, Meizhen,
Makmillen, Shurli,
Olsen, Frances,
Poscher, Ralf,
Schneider, Klaus P.,
Shaer, Benjamin,
Slocum, Brian G.,
Solan, Larry,
Solan, Lawrence M.,
Stein, Dieter,
Sun, Yadi,
Vlasenko, Svetlana V.,
Vogel, Friedemann,
Zielasko, Dirk,
HerausgeberIn:
Giltrow, Janet,
Stein, Dieter ,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 373 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Dedicated to the memory of Peter Tiersma
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • 1. Introduction
  • I. Linguistic-pragmatic approaches to inference in law
  • 2. Telling it slant: Toward a taxonomy of deception
  • 3. Cooperation in Chinese courtroom discourse
  • 4. Inference and intention in legal interpretation
  • 5. Pragmatics and legal texts: How best to account for the gaps between literal meaning and communicative meaning
  • 6. One ambiguity, three legal approaches
  • II. Horizons of inference: Extending the context of interpretation
  • 7. Between similarity and analogy: Rethinking the role of prototypes in law and cognitive linguistics
  • 8. When is an insult a crime? On diverging conceptualizations and changing legislation
  • 9. Pragmatic interpretation by judges: Constrained performatives and the deployment of gender bias
  • 10. Disguising the dynamism of the law in Canadian courts: Judges using dictionaries
  • III. Across borders: New methods for study of inference
  • 11. Legal translation pragmatics: Legal meaning as text-external convention – the case of ‘chattels’
  • 12. Calculating legal meanings? Drawbacks and opportunities of corpus-assisted legal linguistics to make the law (more) explicit
  • 13. The common error in theories of adjudication: An inferentialist argument for a doctrinal conception
  • 14. On inferencing in law
  • Subject index

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