书目名称 | Implicatures within Legal Language |
编辑 | Izabela Skoczeń |
视频video | |
概述 | Presents a groundbreaking approach to legal pragmatics.Unveils the mechanisms behind courts’ decisions.Demonstrates an unique and novel approach to the meaning of legal implicatures |
丛书名称 | Law and Philosophy Library |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | This book proposes a novel, descriptive theory that unveils the linguistic mechanisms lurking behind judicial decisions. It offers a comprehensive account of the ongoing debate, as well as a novel solution to the problem of understanding legal pragmatics..Linguistic pragmatics is based on a theory created by Paul Grice, who observed that people usually convey more than just the amalgam of the meaning of the words they use. He labeled this surplus of meaning a “conversational implicature.” This book addresses the question of whether implicatures occur in the legal language, firstly illustrating why the classic Gricean theory is not applicable (without substantial modification) to the description of legal language and proposing a novel approach based on a modification of Andrei Marmor’s “strategic speech.” Subsequently, it analyzes neo-Gricean theories and their limited use for describing the mechanisms of legal interpretation, and discusses the possibility of pragmatic enrichment of legal content as well as the notion of completeness of a legal proposition. Lastly, it illustrates how the developed theory works in practice, with examples from penal and civil law cases. The book is he |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | Pragmatics of legal language; Paul Grice; Implicature; Semantic externalism; Pragmatic enrichment; Canons |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12532-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-12534-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-12532-5Series ISSN 1572-4395 Series E-ISSN 2215-0315 |
issn_series | 1572-4395 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 |