Overview
- 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)
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Pragmatics and Legal Interpretation
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Pragmatics and Legal Theory
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Pragmatics and Legal Adjudication
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About this book
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?
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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