Pragmatics and Law
Philosophical Perspectives
Editors: Capone, Alessandro, Poggi, Francesca (Eds.)
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- 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
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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?
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Law and the Primacy of Pragmatics
Pages 1-13
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Defeasibility and Pragmatic Indeterminacy in Law
Pages 15-32
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Legal Pragmatics
Pages 33-60
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The Semantics and Pragmatics of According to the Law
Pages 61-88
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Deep Interpretive Disagreements and Theory of Legal Interpretation
Pages 89-119
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Pragmatics and Law
- Book Subtitle
- Philosophical Perspectives
- Editors
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- Alessandro Capone
- Francesca Poggi
- Series Title
- Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
- Series Volume
- 7
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-30385-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-30385-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-30383-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-80796-6
- Series ISSN
- 2214-3807
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 267
- Topics