Legal semiotics is new field highly relevant to both legal practice and the transference of legal knowledge across generations of lawyers. This volume assesses the role legal semiotics play in legal education.
Legal semiotics is new field highly relevant to both legal practice and the transference of legal knowledge across generations of lawyers. This vol...
This book examines the progress to date in the many facets conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfilment of the promise of legal semiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation.
This study in Legal Semiotics brings together the theory, structure and practise of legal semiotics in an accessible style. The book introduces the concepts of legal semiotics and offers an insight in contemporary and future directions which the semiotics of law is going to take.
A theoretical and practical...
This book examines the progress to date in the many facets conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It ref...
Conversation and argument concerning laws and legal situations take place throughout society and at all levels, yet the language of these conversations differs greatly from that of the courtroom. This insightful book considers the gap between everyday discussion about law and the artificial, technical language developed by lawyers, judges and other legal specialists. In doing so, it explores the intriguing possibilities for future synthesis, a problem often neglected by legal theory.
Conversation and argument concerning laws and legal situations take place throughout society and at all levels, yet the language of these conversation...
The `law-language-law' theme is deeply engraved in Occidental culture, more so than contemporary studies on the subject currently illustrate. This insightful book creates awareness of these cultural roots and shows how language and themes in law can be richer than studying a simple mutuality of motives. Focusing on the multilevel phenomenon of `speech', Jan M. Broekman explores the history of this theme, from the West-European Middle Ages, through to today's globalization. Existing philosophical concepts are studied for their views on `alter', other and otherness in speech, alongside...
The `law-language-law' theme is deeply engraved in Occidental culture, more so than contemporary studies on the subject currently illustrate. This ins...
