Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter One. The Contribution of Linguistics to Legal Interpretation 14
5. Chapter Two. Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, and Possible Lessons about Originalism 46
6. Chapter Three. Linguistic Knowledge and Legal Interpretation 66
7. Chapter Four. The Continued Relevance of Philosophical Hermeneutics in Legal Thought 88
8. Chapter Five. The Strange Fate of Holmes’s Normal Speaker of English 105
9. Chapter Six. Originalism, Hermeneutics, and the Fixation Thesis 130
10. Chapter Seven. Getting Over the Originalist Fixation 156
11. Chapter Eight. Legal Speech and the Elements of Adjudication 191
12. Chapter Nine. Deferentialism, Living Originalism, and the Constitution 218
13. Chapter Ten. Deferentialism and Adjudication 241
14. Response to Chapter Ten. Comments on Rosen 272
15. Contributors 283
16. Cases 285
17. Index 287