Natural semantic (legal?) metalanguage. What can legal theory learn from Anna Wierzbicka?

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Section 1: Investigating legal interpretation and argumentation
5. The Dulac affair and the triple game of contemporary art 9
6. Argumentation, rhetoric and legal justification. The case of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruling on abortion 29
7. The pragmatics of evidence discourse: Ostensive acts 47
8. Section 2: Looking at language to investigate legal challenges
9. Illusions of a common Language: Impressions of an arbitration practitioner 67
10. Pragmatic features of Italian court proceedings 79
11. Politeness Matters: What honorifics can tell us about accuracy in Japanese-English court interpreting 91
12. Textual representation as a conceptual tool: Big data analysis of legal language 117
13. Section 3: Theories of sense and meaning for legal investigations
14. What is practical about law? Contemporary legal philosophy on legal practice 145
15. Natural semantic (legal?) metalanguage. What can legal theory learn from Anna Wierzbicka? 173
16. Index 205