Editors:
- Updates the current state of legal semiotics
- Highlights the interdisciplinary nature of legal semiotics
- Brings together the theory, structure and practise of legal semiotics in an accessible style
- Provides a theoretical and practical oriented synthesis of the historical and contemporary ideas on legal semiotics
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Legal Semiotics as Communication
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines the progress to date in the many facets – conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfilment of the promise of legal semiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation.
This study in Legal Semiotics brings together the theory, structure and practise of legal semiotics in an accessible style. The book introduces the concepts of legal semiotics and offers an insight in contemporary and future directions which the semiotics of law is going to take.
A theoretical and practical oriented synthesis of the historical, contemporary and most recent ideas pertaining to legal semiotics, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in law and social sciences , as well as those who are interested in the interdisciplinary dynamics of law and semiotics.
Keywords
- Deconstruction and legal semiotics
- Dialectical approaches to law
- Jurisprudence
- Law
- Legal Semiotics Movement
- Legal Semiotics as Communication
- Legal semiotics
- Linguistics
- Philosophy of Law
- Rhetoric
- Semiotic Aspects of Jurisprudence
- Semiotic issues
- Semiotics
- Semiotics of Intellectual Property
- Visual Law
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This fascinating book makes a significant contribution to an understanding of legal semiotics through its diverse collection of essays that approach the field from both a theoretical and practical perspective. The book’s attempt to synthesize historical, contemporary and future ideas on legal semiotics will be of particular interest to scholars in law and the social sciences.” (Letetia van der Poll, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 25, 2012)Editors and Affiliations
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Dépt. Droit, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Boulogne sur Mer, France
Anne Wagner
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Dickinson School of law, Penn State University, Carlisle, USA
Jan Broekman
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prospects of Legal Semiotics
Editors: Anne Wagner, Jan Broekman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9343-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9342-4Published: 07 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3985-7Published: 02 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9343-1Published: 24 September 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 244
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Linguistics, general, Logic