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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] ; 18Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501504723
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No title; No title; No titleLOC classification:
  • K213
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Dedicated to the memory of Peter Tiersma / Solan, Larry -- Preface -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction / Giltrow, Janet -- I. Linguistic-pragmatic approaches to inference in law -- 2. Telling it slant: Toward a taxonomy of deception / Horn, Laurence R. -- 3. Cooperation in Chinese courtroom discourse / Liao, Meizhen / Sun, Yadi -- 4. Inference and intention in legal interpretation / Allott, Nicholas / Shaer, Benjamin -- 5. Pragmatics and legal texts: How best to account for the gaps between literal meaning and communicative meaning / Slocum, Brian G. -- 6. One ambiguity, three legal approaches / Solan, Lawrence M. -- II. Horizons of inference: Extending the context of interpretation -- 7. Between similarity and analogy: Rethinking the role of prototypes in law and cognitive linguistics / Condello, Angela / Arapinis, Alexandra -- 8. When is an insult a crime? On diverging conceptualizations and changing legislation / Schneider, Klaus P. / Zielasko, Dirk -- 9. Pragmatic interpretation by judges: Constrained performatives and the deployment of gender bias / Olsen, Frances -- 10. Disguising the dynamism of the law in Canadian courts: Judges using dictionaries / Makmillen, Shurli / Fee, Margery -- III. Across borders: New methods for study of inference -- 11. Legal translation pragmatics: Legal meaning as text-external convention – the case of ‘chattels’ / Vlasenko, Svetlana V. -- 12. Calculating legal meanings? Drawbacks and opportunities of corpus-assisted legal linguistics to make the law (more) explicit / Vogel, Friedemann -- 13. The common error in theories of adjudication: An inferentialist argument for a doctrinal conception / Poscher, Ralf -- 14. On inferencing in law / Stein, Dieter -- Subject index
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Frontmatter -- Dedicated to the memory of Peter Tiersma / Solan, Larry -- Preface -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction / Giltrow, Janet -- I. Linguistic-pragmatic approaches to inference in law -- 2. Telling it slant: Toward a taxonomy of deception / Horn, Laurence R. -- 3. Cooperation in Chinese courtroom discourse / Liao, Meizhen / Sun, Yadi -- 4. Inference and intention in legal interpretation / Allott, Nicholas / Shaer, Benjamin -- 5. Pragmatics and legal texts: How best to account for the gaps between literal meaning and communicative meaning / Slocum, Brian G. -- 6. One ambiguity, three legal approaches / Solan, Lawrence M. -- II. Horizons of inference: Extending the context of interpretation -- 7. Between similarity and analogy: Rethinking the role of prototypes in law and cognitive linguistics / Condello, Angela / Arapinis, Alexandra -- 8. When is an insult a crime? On diverging conceptualizations and changing legislation / Schneider, Klaus P. / Zielasko, Dirk -- 9. Pragmatic interpretation by judges: Constrained performatives and the deployment of gender bias / Olsen, Frances -- 10. Disguising the dynamism of the law in Canadian courts: Judges using dictionaries / Makmillen, Shurli / Fee, Margery -- III. Across borders: New methods for study of inference -- 11. Legal translation pragmatics: Legal meaning as text-external convention – the case of ‘chattels’ / Vlasenko, Svetlana V. -- 12. Calculating legal meanings? Drawbacks and opportunities of corpus-assisted legal linguistics to make the law (more) explicit / Vogel, Friedemann -- 13. The common error in theories of adjudication: An inferentialist argument for a doctrinal conception / Poscher, Ralf -- 14. On inferencing in law / Stein, Dieter -- Subject index

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