The question I pose for those who have devoted considerable effort to the project is why linguistics should have anything to offer those who would interpret legal texts. An answer to the question requires both an understanding of what linguistics is and a theory for why it might illuminate areas of interest for us. Through the materials of the symposium I believe I have acquired a reasonably accurate, if limited, understanding of the linguist\u27s enterprise, but nowhere in the materials have I found help with the theoretical problem
Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language and is one of the four subfield of ...
Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language and is one of the four subfield of ...
The editors of the volume have inspired the authors to address the fundamental question that any res...
What can lawyers learn from linguistics? Here are some thoughts, focused on statutory interpretation
Law and linguistics ought to be natural partners. Modem statutory and constitutional interpretation\...
Law and linguistics ought to be natural partners. Modem statutory and constitutional interpretation ...
First, I will discuss certain limits in the potential relevance of linguistic theory to legal analys...
Not only does linguistics fail to illuminate the meaning of legal texts, the approach to meaning tak...
This Article begins by describing the development of interest within linguistics over the last two d...
This Article sketches some of the ideas and issues involved in the claims of the Law and Linguistics...
Without fanfare, Plain Meaning and Hard Cases relegated its discussion of phonetics, phonology, and ...
One might expect that linguistics-the scientific study of language- would have much to offer the leg...
I would like to take a closer look here at how linguists and lawyers look at language (sentences) an...
Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday...
In this Article, I want to take the heretical position that linguists\u27 principal expertise-ascert...
Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language and is one of the four subfield of ...
Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language and is one of the four subfield of ...
The editors of the volume have inspired the authors to address the fundamental question that any res...
What can lawyers learn from linguistics? Here are some thoughts, focused on statutory interpretation
Law and linguistics ought to be natural partners. Modem statutory and constitutional interpretation\...
Law and linguistics ought to be natural partners. Modem statutory and constitutional interpretation ...
First, I will discuss certain limits in the potential relevance of linguistic theory to legal analys...
Not only does linguistics fail to illuminate the meaning of legal texts, the approach to meaning tak...
This Article begins by describing the development of interest within linguistics over the last two d...
This Article sketches some of the ideas and issues involved in the claims of the Law and Linguistics...
Without fanfare, Plain Meaning and Hard Cases relegated its discussion of phonetics, phonology, and ...
One might expect that linguistics-the scientific study of language- would have much to offer the leg...
I would like to take a closer look here at how linguists and lawyers look at language (sentences) an...
Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday...
In this Article, I want to take the heretical position that linguists\u27 principal expertise-ascert...
Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language and is one of the four subfield of ...
Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language and is one of the four subfield of ...
The editors of the volume have inspired the authors to address the fundamental question that any res...