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1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-223) and index. |
| Summary |
Language, Meaning and the Law offers an accessible, critical guide to debates about linguistic meaning and interpretation in relation to legal language. Law is an ideal domain for considering fundamental questions relating to how we assign meanings to words, understand and comment on texts, and deal with socially and ideologically significant questions of interpretation. The book argues that theoretical issues of concern to linguists, philosophers, literary theorists and others are illuminated by the demands of the legal context, since law is driven by the need for practical solutions and for. |
| Contents |
Legal theory and language -- System theory, normativity and the "realist dilemma" -- Philosophy, law and language -- Issues in legal interpretation -- Literal meaning, the dictionary and the law -- Representation, reproduction and intention -- Idols of the market -- Key issues: Insider judges and outsider critics. Hard cases and ideal interpreters. Judge as a tennis umpire. Golden mean? Reflexivity and Garfinkel's dystopia of reasons. Single meaning rule and defamation of law -- Conclusion: Semiotics of law, language and money -- Appendices: Hogsville files. Rules, norms and the everyday. Who owns language? Popular meaning and statutory interpretation. Literal meaning and national security. "No vehicles across state lines" : a famous vehicle case. Grice and perjury. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Law -- Language.
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Law -- Language. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Law. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hutton, Christopher. Language, meaning and the law. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 9780748633517 0748633510 (OCoLC)272557926 |
| ISBN |
9780748633524 (electronic book) |
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0748633529 (electronic book) |
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9780748633517 |
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0748633510 |
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9780748633500 |
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0748633502 |
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