Between Text, Meaning and Legal Languages : : Linguistic Approaches to Legal Interpretation / / ed. by Jan Engberg.

This collection on legal interpretation in a broad sense presents state-of-the-art linguistic approaches that are applied for studying interpretation and meaning generation in various legal settings. It covers different aspects of the concepts like judicial dissent, court argumentation, investigatin...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] , 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 206 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: Investigating legal interpretation and argumentation
  • The Dulac affair and the triple game of contemporary art
  • Argumentation, rhetoric and legal justification. The case of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal ruling on abortion
  • The pragmatics of evidence discourse: Ostensive acts
  • Section 2: Looking at language to investigate legal challenges
  • Illusions of a common Language: Impressions of an arbitration practitioner
  • Pragmatic features of Italian court proceedings
  • Politeness Matters: What honorifics can tell us about accuracy in Japanese-English court interpreting
  • Textual representation as a conceptual tool: Big data analysis of legal language
  • Section 3: Theories of sense and meaning for legal investigations
  • What is practical about law? Contemporary legal philosophy on legal practice
  • Natural semantic (legal?) metalanguage. What can legal theory learn from Anna Wierzbicka?
  • Index