Introduction: Hidden meanings in legal discourse

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
3. Introduction: Hidden meanings in legal discourse
4. Comparing the incomparable and legal discourse
5. Two assumptions in legal discourse: To answer for self and to tell the truth
6. Le sens caché: Refoulement et impensé dans le discours de la loi sémiotique des significations cachées du discours juridique
7. Multiple historical and social layers of interpretation of marital rape in England
8. Revisiting judgment translation in Hong Kong
9. Exemption and exegesis: Judicial interpretation of exemption clauses in England, Australia, and India
10. Identifying the meanings hidden in legal texts: The three conditions of relevance theory and their sufficiency
11. The consequences and effects of language transformations in legal discourse
12. Exploring identities in police interrogations
13. Rights, responsibilities, and resistance: Legal discourse and intervention legislation in the Northern Territory in Australia
14. An exploration of the semantic domain of legal language
15. The hidden meanings in the case law of the European Court for Human Rights
16. Crimes of the sign: Politics and performatives in the Treason Trials of 1794
17. Showing what “marriage” is: Law’s civilizing sign
18. A sociosemiotic approach to the legal dispute over the crime of whoring with an underage girl in China
19. Uncovering hidden meanings in legal discourse on the elderly: A semioethical perspective
20. Deontic meaning making in legislative discourse
21. Hidden meanings of the words “religion” and “religious” in legal discourse
22. Hidden cultures in law: Metaphor and translation in legal discourse
23. Negotiating language status in multilingual jurisdictions: Rhetoric and reality
24. Burying attitudes in words: Linguistic realization of the shift of judges’ court conciliation style