Pragmatics and Law : Practical and Theoretical Perspectives

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Pragmatics and Law : Practical and Theoretical Perspectives

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Practical and Theoretical Perspectives

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edited by Francesca Poggi, Alessandro Capone

Contributor

• Capone, Alessandro
• Poggi, Francesca

Editor

• Poggi, Francesca
• Capone, Alessandro

Subject

• Linguistics
• Political science
• Semantics
• Language and languages -- Philosophy

Language

eng

Summary

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?--

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• Springer eBooks, Social Sciences Collection
• Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology,, 10

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non fiction

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dictionaries

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• Springer eBooks
• Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology,

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10