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Between Text, Meaning and Legal Languages
Linguistic Approaches to Legal Interpretation
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Jan Engberg
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
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This collection on legal interpretation in a broad sense presents state-of-the-art linguistic approaches that are applied for studying interpretation and meaning generation in various legal settings. It covers different aspects of the concepts like judicial dissent, court argumentation, investigating sociological meaning, or comparing legal meaning in comparative law. Scholars can turn to the volume for methods and findings to ground their own inquiries, and students will find guides to topics and methods in the field of law, meaning generation, and language.
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Jan Engberg, Aarhus University, Denmark.
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - Section 1: Investigating legal interpretation and argumentation
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The Dulac affair and the triple game of contemporary art
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Argumentation, rhetoric and legal justification. The case of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruling on abortion
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The pragmatics of evidence discourse: Ostensive acts
47 - Section 2: Looking at language to investigate legal challenges
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Illusions of a common Language: Impressions of an arbitration practitioner
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Pragmatic features of Italian court proceedings
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Politeness Matters: What honorifics can tell us about accuracy in Japanese-English court interpreting
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Textual representation as a conceptual tool: Big data analysis of legal language
117 - Section 3: Theories of sense and meaning for legal investigations
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What is practical about law? Contemporary legal philosophy on legal practice
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Natural semantic (legal?) metalanguage. What can legal theory learn from Anna Wierzbicka?
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Index
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eBook published on:
December 4, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9783110799651
Hardcover published on:
December 4, 2023
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110799606
Paperback published on:
June 30, 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9783112214787
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Front matter:
6
Main content:
206
Illustrations:
2
Coloured Illustrations:
7
Tables:
6
eBook ISBN:
9783110799651
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110799606
Paperback ISBN:
9783112214787
Audience(s) for this book
Linguists, Jurists, Translators, Interpreters, Mediators, Legal Practitioners, Students of Applied Linguistics and Law
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