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The pragmatic turn in law : inference and interpretation in legal discourse /
This collection of contributions from both linguists and lawyers brings a pragmatic perspective to the linguistic basis for legal meaning and for finding a norm by which to decide a case. That is, it turns from notions of linguistic meaning as residing in the text, as literal meaning waiting to be d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston ; Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Mouton series in pragmatics ;
18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dedicated to the memory of Peter Tiersma / Larry Solan
- Introduction / Janet Giltrow
- Linguistic-pragmatic approaches to inference in law. Telling it slant : toward a taxonomy of deception / Laurence R. Horn ; Cooperation in Chinese courtroom discourse / Meizhen Liao and Yadi Sun ; Inference and intention in legal interpretation / Nicholas Allott and Benjamin Shaer ; Pragmatics and legal texts : how best to account for the gaps between literal meaning and communicative meaning / Brian G. Slocum ; One ambiguity, three legal approaches / Lawrence M. Solan
- Horizons of inference : Extending the context of interpretation. Between similarity and analogy : rethinking the role of prototypes in law and cognitive linguistics / Angela Condello and Alexandra Arapinis ; When is an insult a crime? On diverging conceptualizations and changing legislation / Klaus P. Schneider and Dirk Zielasko ; Pragmatic interpretation by judges : constrained performatives and the deployment of gender bias / Frances Olsen ; Disguising the dynamism of the law in Canadian courts : judges using dictionaries / Shurli Makmillen and Margery Fee
- Across borders : new methods for study of inference. Legal translation pragmatics : legal meaning as text-external convention
- the case of 'chattels' / Svetlana V. Vlasenko ; Calculating legal meanings? Drawbacks and opportunities of corpus-assisted legal linguistics to make the law (more) explicit / Friedemann Vogel ; The common error in theories of adjudication : an inferentialist argument for a doctrinal conception / Ralf Poscher ; On inferencing in law / Dieter Stein.