Add to ORKGNot only does linguistics fail to illuminate the meaning of legal texts, the approach to meaning taken by its practitioners is, philosophically speaking, nonsensical.\u27 In the brief space of this article, I want to suggest why linguistics is a red herring on the trail to the meaning of legal texts
This article relates to the relationship between law and language by focusing findings in thinking. ...
Because much of modern philosophy has been preoccupied with some form of language analysis and becau...
Semantics is the locus of a potentially fruitful co-operation between linguists and lawyers. Yet one...
What can lawyers learn from linguistics? Here are some thoughts, focused on statutory interpretation
The question I pose for those who have devoted considerable effort to the project is why linguistics...
Law and linguistics ought to be natural partners. Modem statutory and constitutional interpretation\...
This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the potential application of literary theory and cogni...
What this symposium on the intersection between linguistic and legal theory illustrates well is that...
Law and linguistics ought to be natural partners. Modem statutory and constitutional interpretation ...
This essay is intended to engage some of the controversies that have emerged in legal philosophy con...
In this paper I argue that textualism is far less attractive as a theory of written law than some of...
In this Article, I want to take the heretical position that linguists\u27 principal expertise-ascert...
I would like to take a closer look here at how linguists and lawyers look at language (sentences) an...
Without fanfare, Plain Meaning and Hard Cases relegated its discussion of phonetics, phonology, and ...
This Article begins by describing the development of interest within linguistics over the last two d...
This article relates to the relationship between law and language by focusing findings in thinking. ...
Because much of modern philosophy has been preoccupied with some form of language analysis and becau...
Semantics is the locus of a potentially fruitful co-operation between linguists and lawyers. Yet one...
What can lawyers learn from linguistics? Here are some thoughts, focused on statutory interpretation
The question I pose for those who have devoted considerable effort to the project is why linguistics...
Law and linguistics ought to be natural partners. Modem statutory and constitutional interpretation\...
This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the potential application of literary theory and cogni...
What this symposium on the intersection between linguistic and legal theory illustrates well is that...
Law and linguistics ought to be natural partners. Modem statutory and constitutional interpretation ...
This essay is intended to engage some of the controversies that have emerged in legal philosophy con...
In this paper I argue that textualism is far less attractive as a theory of written law than some of...
In this Article, I want to take the heretical position that linguists\u27 principal expertise-ascert...
I would like to take a closer look here at how linguists and lawyers look at language (sentences) an...
Without fanfare, Plain Meaning and Hard Cases relegated its discussion of phonetics, phonology, and ...
This Article begins by describing the development of interest within linguistics over the last two d...
This article relates to the relationship between law and language by focusing findings in thinking. ...
Because much of modern philosophy has been preoccupied with some form of language analysis and becau...
Semantics is the locus of a potentially fruitful co-operation between linguists and lawyers. Yet one...