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The Pragmatic Turn in Law : Inference and Interpretation in Legal Discourse.
Mouton Series in Pragmatics (MSP) is a timely response to the growing demand for innovative and authoritative monographs and edited volumes from all angles of pragmatics. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, applications of evolutionary biology to the study of language, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston, GERMANY :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2017.
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| Colección: | Mouton series in pragmatics ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 linguistics8. 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) explicit13. The common error in theories of adjudication: An inferentialist argument for a doctrinal conception; 14. On inferencing in law; Subject index.