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Pragmatics and Law

Philosophical Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Alessandro Capone

    1. Dept. of Humanities, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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  2. Francesca Poggi

    1. Dept. "Cesare Beccaria", University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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  • An interdisciplinary approach to the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of law, and the cognitive sciences
  • Sophisticated in-depth analyses of legal discourse and adjudication from pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and legal theory
  • An international group of authors including contextualists, literalists, legal positivists, natural law, hermeneutical authors and other schools of thought

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 7)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Law and the Primacy of Pragmatics

    • Brian E. Butler
    Pages 1-13

  3. Defeasibility and Pragmatic Indeterminacy in Law

    • Andrei Marmor
    Pages 15-32

  4. Legal Pragmatics

    • Mario Jori
    Pages 33-60

  5. The Semantics and Pragmatics of According to the Law

    • J. J. Moreso, Samuele Chilovi
    Pages 61-88

  6. Deep Interpretive Disagreements and Theory of Legal Interpretation

    • Vittorio Villa
    Pages 89-119

  7. Legal Disagreements and Theories of Reference

    • Genoveva Martí, Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña
    Pages 121-139

  8. The Role of Pragmatics in (Re)Constructing the Rational Law-Maker

    • Alessandro Capone
    Pages 141-157

  9. Legal Positivism and the Pragmatics of Meaning and Morality

    • Ross Charnock
    Pages 159-184

  10. What Did You (Legally) Say? Cooperative and Strategic Interactions

    • Claudia Bianchi
    Pages 185-199

  11. Widening the Gricean Picture to Strategic Exchanges

    • Lucia Morra
    Pages 201-229

  12. Grice, the Law and the Linguistic Special Case Thesis

    • Francesca Poggi
    Pages 231-248

  13. Materialization in Legal Communication in the Transfering Process

    • Anne Wagner
    Pages 249-262

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 263-267
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About this book

This volume highlights important aspects of the complex relationship between common language and legal practice. It hosts an interdisciplinary discussion between cognitive science, philosophy of language and philosophy of law, in which an international group of authors aims to promote, enrich and refine this new debate. 

Philosophers of law have always shown a keen interest in cognitive science and philosophy of language in order to find tools to solve their problems: recently this interest was reciprocated and scholars from cognitive science and philosophy of language now look to the law as a testing ground for their theses.


Using the most sophisticated tools available to pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cognitive sciences and legal theory, an interdisciplinary, international group of authors address questions like: Does legal interpretation differ from ordinary understanding? Is the common pragmatic apparatus appropriate to legal practice? What can pragmatics teach about the concept of law and pervasive legal phenomena such as testimony or legal disagreements?

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Humanities, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Alessandro Capone

  • Dept. "Cesare Beccaria", University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Francesca Poggi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pragmatics and Law

  • Book Subtitle: Philosophical Perspectives

  • Editors: Alessandro Capone, Francesca Poggi

  • Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30385-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30383-3Published: 11 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80796-6Published: 27 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30385-7Published: 02 May 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2214-3807

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 267

  • Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Law

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