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Social Conventions : From Language to Law /

Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and com...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Marmor, Andrei
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • A first look at the nature of conventions
  • Constitutive conventions
  • Deep conventions
  • Conventions of language : semantics
  • Conventions of language : pragmatics
  • The morality of conventions
  • The conventional foundations of law.