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Pragmatics and Law

Practical and Theoretical Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Francesca Poggi

    1. Department of “Cesare Beccaria” Section of Philosophy of Law, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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  2. Alessandro Capone

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

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  • An interdisciplinary approach to important issues on the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of law, and cognitive sciences
  • Offers sophisticated in-depth analysis of legal discourse and legal adjudication from the points of view of pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and legal theory
  • An international group of authors represents almost all the currents that deal with these issues, including contextualists, literalists, legal positivists, natural law, hermeneutical authors and others

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 10)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Pragmatics and Legal Interpretation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Slippery Meaning and Accountability

      • Kasia M. Jaszczolt
      Pages 3-22

    3. Implicitness in Normative Texts

      • Marina Sbisà
      Pages 23-42

    4. What Inferentialism Tells Us About Combinatory Vagueness in Law

      • Damiano Canale
      Pages 43-66

    5. On the Possibility of Non-literal Legislative Speech

      • Hrafn Asgeirsson
      Pages 67-101

    6. The Pragmatics of Scepticism

      • Pierluigi Chiassoni
      Pages 103-132

    7. Doubting Legal Language: Interpretive Skepticism and Legal Practice

      • Nicola Muffato
      Pages 133-163

    8. Legal Text and Pragmatics: Semantic Battles or the Power of the Declarative in Specialized Discourse

      • Ekkehard Felder
      Pages 165-192

  3. Pragmatics and Legal Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. A Puzzle About Hart’s Theory of Internal Legal Statements

      • Michael S. Green
      Pages 195-221

    3. Can Metalinguistic Negotiations and ‘Conceptual Ethics’ rescue legal positivism?

      • Teresa Marques
      Pages 223-241

    4. The Dark Side of Imperatives

      • Alessio Sardo
      Pages 243-271

    5. Disputable Means: Pragmatic Knowledge Practices in Sovereign Debt Agreements. Reflections on the Argentinian Case

      • Leticia Barrera
      Pages 273-291

    6. The Role of Pragmatics in the Web of Data

      • Pompeu Casanovas, Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel, Jorge González-Conejero
      Pages 293-330

  4. Pragmatics and Legal Adjudication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 331-331
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    2. Pragmatics of Adjudication. In the Footsteps of Alf Ross

      • Mauro Barberis
      Pages 333-348

    3. Pragmatic Disorders in Forensic Settings

      • Louise Cummings
      Pages 349-377

    4. The Pragmatics of Stereotypes in Legal Decision-Making

      • Federico José Arena
      Pages 379-399

    5. Epistemic Stance in Courtroom Interaction

      • Sune Sønderberg Mortensen, Janus Mortensen
      Pages 401-437
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About this book

This volume is the second part of a project which hosts an interdisciplinary discussion about the relationship among law and language, legal practice and ordinary conversation, legal philosophy and the linguistics sciences. An international group of authors, from cognitive science, philosophy of language and philosophy of law question about how legal theory and pragmatics can enrich each other.


In particular, the first part is devoted to the analysis of how pragmatics can solve problems related to legal theory: What can pragmatics teach about the concept of law and its relationship with moral, and, in particular, about the eternal dispute between legal positivism and legal naturalism? What can pragmatics teach about the concept of law and/or legal disagreements?


The second part is focused on legal adjudication: it aims to construct a pragmatic apparatus appropriate to legal trial and/or to test the tenure of the traditional pragmatics tools in the field. The authors face questions such as: Which interesting pragmatic features emerge from legal adjudication? What pragmatic theories are better suited to account for the practice of judgment or its particular aspects (such as the testimony or the binding force of legal precedents)? Which pragmatic and socio-linguistic problems are highlighted by this practice?


Reviews

“The contributions in the book discuss highly complex questions at the interface between the philosophy of law, philosophy of language, and pragmatics. … Overall, this is a well-edited book which will hopefully inspire future research. It represents an important contribution to the understanding of the pragmatic aspects of the relationship between language and law, and it is a valuable resource for scholars interested in legal theory, philosophy of law, philosophy of language, semantics, pragmatics, and legal linguistics.” (Lelija Socanac, The Linguist List, linguistlist.org, June, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of “Cesare Beccaria” Section of Philosophy of Law, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Francesca Poggi

  • Department of Humanities, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Alessandro Capone

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pragmatics and Law

  • Book Subtitle: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives

  • Editors: Francesca Poggi, Alessandro Capone

  • Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44601-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44599-1Published: 15 December 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83091-9Published: 11 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44601-1Published: 01 December 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2214-3807

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 476

  • Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations

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

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