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Languages of the Law : Vocabularies and Uses / edited by Verena Klappstein, Maciej Dybowski.
Springer Nature - Springer Law and Criminology (R0) eBooks 2025 English International Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klappstein, Verena.
- Series:
- Living Signs of Law, 2948-2429 ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Law--History.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.
- Philosophy of Language.
- Local Subjects:
- Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.
- Philosophy of Language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.
- Summary:
- Law can be seen as a motley of different languages deployed in the legal domain. The authors of the chapters share interest in what determines the scope of the vocabulary of these languages as well as in the way they are used. Thus, both the linguistic and pragmatic turns occurring in the philosophy of language are explored as exercising not mere ripple effects on legal scholarship, but rather as having a huge impact on jurisprudence. The chapters in this volume tackle three broad problem areas to offer a coherent picture of languages of the law. The first section is devoted to legal language at large, including reflections on its nature and some distinct functions it performs in the legal domain. The second section of the book focuses on the distinctly legal and pragmatic dimensions of some fragments of vocabulary, used either in legal texts or in legal scholarship. In the third section of the volume, authors research specific questions regarding legal language and legal reasoning. .
- Contents:
- Languages of the Law: Vocabularies and Uses. Introduction
- Part I. Legal Language, Signs & Speech Acts
- Language of the Law as a Sign and as a Symbol
- Listing Acts of Legal Communication: An Extension of the Concept of Legal Language
- On Pineapple Wine: Compound Terms and the Ordinary Language(s) of the Law
- Street Naming, Speech Acts and the Law
- Part II. Conceptualisation of Law via Language
- Law and (Conceptual) Revolution
- The Normativity of Law and Normative Vocabularies in Law: The Inferentialist Explanatory Route
- What Can Content-Force Distinction Teach Us About Law?
- Union is strength. Textual agency of constitutions in the integration of democratic communities
- Part III. Legal Reasoning
- Application and Applicability of the Law in Relation to its Validity
- The Application of Juristic Concepts in Legal Reasoning
- Stranger than legal fictions - the argument of analogy
- , “Legal practice” as a part of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s vocabulary.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9783031729232
- 3031729234
- OCLC:
- 1500772558
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