Summary
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents in Brief
- Detailed Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introductory remarks
- Part 1: Legal-Linguistic Points of Departure
- Part 2: Legal Epistemology and its Consequences
- Part 3: Discursiveness of Law
- Part 4: Semiotics of Legal Discourse
- Part 5: Legal Argumentation between Discursiveness and Rationality
- Part 6: Linguistic Turn in Law
- Part 7: Legal Narrativity or Law as Literature
- Part 8: Ubiquitous Legal Argumentation
- Part 9: Discursive Perspectives and New Horizons
- Bibliography
- Index of names
- Index of matters
Part 1: Legal-Linguistic Points of Departure
1.1 Some fundamental questions
1.2 Meaning and discourses in law
1.4 Discursive choices and particularity of language use in law
1.5 Legal discourse without limits?
1.6 Non-committal use of textual samples
Part 2: Legal Epistemology and its Consequences
2.1 Legal ontology and legal epistemology
2.3 Static reason or law in action?
2.3.1 Existence in terms of law
2.3.2 Does the nature of things shape the law?
2.3.4 Turning the concept of law upside down
2.4 What is the domain of Law and Language?
2.5 Consequences of the epistemological interest in law
3.1.2 Foucault and legal science
3.1.3 Foucault’s approach to law and power
3.2 Discourse and discursiveness
3.2.3 Monologues as discursive prerequisites
3.2.4 Other discursive prerequisites
3.3 Discursiveness and discourse analysis
3.3.2 Discursive law in discursive societies
3.3.3 Ideally discursive societies
3.3.4 Non-discursive areas of social action
3.4 Discursiveness and creativity
3.4.1 Diversity of legal discourses
3.4.2 Divide between professional and non-professional discourses
3.4.5 Relative independence of non-professional discourse
3.6 Hostile winds cannot prevent discourses
3.6.1 Largely non-discursive valuable approaches to law
3.6.2 Discursiveness and meaning determination
3.6.3 Purists’ and essentialists’ views upon legal language
3.6.4 Essentialism and legal discourses
3.6.5 Reification of legal language
3.6.6 Strictly non-discursive approaches to law
3.7.1 Legal discursiveness ‘more geometrico’
3.7.4 Revolutions and legal discourses
3.8 Can there be a legal ethics?
3.8.2 Avoiding participation in legal discourses
3.9 Provisional appraisal of ‘results’
Part 4: Semiotics of Legal Discourse
4.1 Legal semiotics and legal discourse
4.1.2 Semiotic complexity of discourse
4.1.3 Discourse unites language and power
4.2 Non-verbal elements of legal discourses
4.3 Legal interpretation: Pre-interpretive remarks
4.3.3 Oblivious interpretation
4.3.4 Revelation of law as interpretive device
4.3.5 Constructive interpretation
4.3.6 Originalism as interpretive device
4.3.7 Law and Economics as interpretive paradigm
4.3.8 Establishing interpretive rules
4.3.9 Soft interpretive guidelines
4.4 Meta-interpretive reflections
4.4.3 Denial of interpretation
4.5 Formalism in interpretation
4.5.1 Sacrifice to the dead letter of law
4.5.2 Interpretive pragmatism in action
4.5.3 Judicial interpretive reference
4.5.5 Ambivalence in legal language
4.6 Legal discourse and legal communication
4.6.3 Continuity of information in law
4.6.4 Signification in communication
4.6.5 Creating the language of law
4.6.6 Semiotics of legal discursiveness
Part 5: Legal Argumentation between Discursiveness and Rationality
5.1 Discursiveness and rationality
5.1.1 Consequences of legal discursiveness
5.1.2 Rationality and freedom as fundamental concepts of legal discourses
5.2.1 Free will and responsibility in legal texts and beyond
5.2.3 Contradictions between words and deeds
5.2.4 Linearity of language sublated
5.2.5 Kant and Hegel contribute to shaping of legal discourses
5.3 Legal reasoning and legal logic
5.3.3 Law of punishment for logicians
5.4.2 Arbitrary use of language
5.4.4 Abusing the credulity of others
5.5.1 Friends of irrationality
5.5.4 Seclusion and crocodile tears in legal discourses
5.6 Law as element of ethical and political discourses
5.7 Converting words into respectable judicial discourses
5.7.1 Metaphor of race as power device
5.8 Law as a cultural phenomenon
Part 6: Linguistic Turn in Law
6.1 Negligence of legal science
6.1.1 Shift towards language use
6.1.2 Why care about language in life?
6.1.3 Why care about language in law?
6.2.1 True and comprehensive science of language
6.2.2 Historical conceptions of linguistics
6.2.3 Contemporary tendencies in linguistics
6.3 Specific linguistics for legal sciences
6.3.1 Developing a theory about language for law
6.3.3 Social character of legal language
6.3.5 Illegal language – using language and ending in jail
6.3.6 Language in other contexts
6.4.1 Concepts and terms in law
6.4.3 Institutions and concepts
6.4.5 Legalization of concepts
6.5 Emergence of meaning in law
6.5.1 Courts committed to ‘ordinary meaning’
6.5.2 Courts shape ‘ordinary language’
6.5.3 Literal apprehension of meaning
6.5.4 Heirs presumptive and presumptive heirs
6.5.5 An attempt to privatize language
6.6 Understandability, vagueness, ambiguity in law
6.6.1 Plain language and plain law
6.6.2 Could language in law be circumvented?
6.6.3 Is content in law a linguistic trap?
6.6.4 Another linguistic trap in law and its globalization: the custom
6.7 Legal linguistics as fact in law
6.7.1 Legal linguistics as an approach to law
6.7.2 Ptolemaic v. Copernican legal linguistics
6.7.3 Legal linguistics as a pragmatic theory of law
6.7.4 Disruptive legal linguistics
6.7.5 Legal semantics and legal pragmatics
6.8 Dissolution of legal linguistics
6.8.1 Is language an epiphenomenon in law?
6.8.4 Linguistic turn and iconic turn in law
6.9 Perfect stability of legal science
Part 7: Legal Narrativity or Law as Literature
7.1.1 Orality and literacy in law
7.1.2 Written text and intertext
7.1.3 Discourse analysis in law
7.2 Setting narrative patterns
7.2.3 Humorous use of legal language
7.2.4 Assertion of facts as narrative
7.2.5 Writings against the government
7.3.1 Books help jurists more than one would think
7.3.3 Constitutions as founding discourses
7.3.5 America as favorite in a book
7.4 Creating a state with words
7.4.4 Consequences for America
7.4.5 Anti-narrativism and law
7.4.6 How to make discourses of narratives?
7.4.7 Importance of fundamental narratives for legal linguistics
7.5.4 Expanding legal language
7.5.5 Irony in literature about law
7.5.7 Undesirable class in law
7.5.8 Literary bridges in legal discourses
7.5.9 Law profoundly misunderstood by a big boy
7.6.3 Some precedents value more than others
Part 8: Ubiquitous Legal Argumentation
8.1.1 Formation of the notion of law in India
8.1.2 Argumentation in Bhagavad Gita
8.1.3 Sino-Indian argumentative transfers
8.1.5 Lexicology and lexicography
8.2 Chinese law in comparative research
8.2.3 Reception of foreign law in China
8.2.4 Legal terminology in the reception process
8.2.6 Intertextuality of Chinese law
8.3 Attitudes towards law in Japan
8.3.1 Ideal of kingdom and Japanese imperial rhetoric
8.3.2 Legal-linguistic changes in Japan’s Constitutions
8.3.3 Conflict resolution mechanisms in Japan
8.3.4 Argumentation in Japanese court decisions
8.3.5 Samples of Japanese court decisions
8.4.1 Global law as guiding idea in legal linguistics
Details
- Pages
- 449
- Publication Year
- 2015
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653048124
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783653978599
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783653978605
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631655900
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-04812-4
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2014 (September)
- Keywords
- Erkenntnistheorie Diskurs Argumentation juristische Sprache
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- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2014. 449 pp.
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