Pragmatics and Law
Practical and Theoretical Perspectives
Editors: Poggi, Francesca, Capone, Alessandro (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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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
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“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)
- Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Slippery Meaning and Accountability
Pages 3-22
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Implicitness in Normative Texts
Pages 23-42
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What Inferentialism Tells Us About Combinatory Vagueness in Law
Pages 43-66
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On the Possibility of Non-literal Legislative Speech
Pages 67-101
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The Pragmatics of Scepticism
Pages 103-132
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Pragmatics and Law
- Book Subtitle
- Practical and Theoretical Perspectives
- Editors
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- Francesca Poggi
- Alessandro Capone
- Series Title
- Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
- Series Volume
- 10
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-44601-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-44601-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-44599-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-83091-9
- Series ISSN
- 2214-3807
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 476
- Number of Illustrations
- 39 b/w illustrations
- Topics
