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Title
Legal discourses / Marcus Galdia.
Published
Frankfurt am Main ; New York : PL Academic Research, [2014]
Call Number
K213 .G349 2014
ISBN
9783631655900
3631655908
9783653048124 (e-book)
3631655908
9783653048124 (e-book)
Description
449 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)881387931
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-444) and indexes.
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Table of Contents
Preface
17
Acknowledgments
21
Introductory remarks
23
Legal-linguistic perspective
23
Discursiveness of law
24
Structure of Legal Discourses
26
pt. 1
Legal-Linguistic Points of Departure
29
1.1.
Some fundamental questions
29
1.2.
Meaning and discourses in law
30
1.3.
Linguistic turn in law
31
1.4.
Discursive choices and particularity of language use in law
33
1.5.
Legal discourse without limits?
34
1.6.
Non-committal use of textual samples
38
1.7.
Legal-linguistic method
39
pt. 2
Legal Epistemology and its Consequences
41
2.1.
Legal ontology and legal epistemology
41
2.2.
How to approach law?
43
2.2.1.
Search for law
44
2.2.2.
Encounters with law
45
2.2.3.
Law apprehended
48
2.3.
Static reason or law in action?
53
2.3.1.
Existence in terms of law
56
2.3.2.
Does the nature of things shape the law?
58
2.3.3.
How does law operate?
59
2.3.4.
Turning the concept of law upside down
60
2.4.
What is the domain of Law and Language?
62
2.5.
Consequences of the epistemological interest in law
62
2.6.
Legal archaeology
63
pt. 3
Discursiveness of Law
65
3.1.
Speaking about law
65
3.1.1.
Foucault as pilot
65
3.1.2.
Foucault and legal science
66
3.1.3.
Foucault's approach to law and power
67
3.2.
Discourse and discursiveness
69
3.2.1.
Discursive contexts
70
3.2.2.
Discursiveness of law
72
3.2.3.
Monologues as discursive prerequisites
74
3.2.4.
Other discursive prerequisites
75
3.3.
Discursiveness and discourse analysis
77
3.3.1.
'Difference' in law
78
3.3.2.
Discursive law in discursive societies
79
3.3.3.
Ideally discursive societies
80
3.3.4.
Non-discursive areas of social action
81
3.4.
Discursiveness and creativity
85
3.4.1.
Diversity of legal discourses
86
3.4.2.
Divide between professional and non-professional discourses
87
3.4.3.
Academic discourse
88
3.4.4.
Didactic discourse
90
3.4.5.
Relative independence of non-professional discourse
91
3.5.
Discursive contents
92
3.6.
Hostile winds cannot prevent discourses
93
3.6.1.
Largely non-discursive valuable approaches to law
93
3.6.2.
Discursiveness and meaning determination
94
3.6.3.
Purists' and essentialists' views upon legal language
95
3.6.4.
Essentialism and legal discourses
96
3.6.5.
Reification of legal language
99
3.6.6.
Strictly non-discursive approaches to law
101
3.7.
Discourses and theories
103
3.7.1.
Legal discursiveness 'more geometrico'
104
3.7.2.
Legal logic
106
3.7.3.
Discourses about matter
106
3.7.4.
Revolutions and legal discourses
107
3.8.
Can there be a legal ethics?
108
3.8.1.
Ethics of discourse
110
3.8.2.
Avoiding participation in legal discourses
111
3.9.
Provisional appraisal of 'results'
112
pt. 4
Semiotics of Legal Discourse
113
4.1.
Legal semiotics and legal discourse
113
4.1.1.
Semiotics of discourse
116
4.1.2.
Semiotic complexity of discourse
118
4.1.3.
Discourse unites language and power
120
4.2.
Non-verbal elements of legal discourses
121
4.2.1.
Artifacts of law
123
4.3.
Legal interpretation: Pre-interpretive remarks
124
4.3.1.
Martian interpretation
126
4.3.2.
Finalist interpretation
127
4.3.3.
Oblivious interpretation
129
4.3.4.
Revelation of law as interpretive device
129
4.3.5.
Constructive interpretation
132
4.3.6.
Originalism as interpretive device
133
4.3.7.
Law and Economics as interpretive paradigm
135
4.3.8.
Establishing interpretive rules
137
4.3.9.
Soft interpretive guidelines
138
4.3.10.
Who can interpret?
139
4.4.
Meta-interpretive reflections
142
4.4.1.
Re-interpretation
142
4.4.2.
Overinterpretation
143
4.4.3.
Denial of interpretation
144
4.5.
Formalism in interpretation
145
4.5.1.
Sacrifice to the dead letter of law
150
4.5.2.
Interpretive pragmatism in action
152
4.5.3.
Judicial interpretive reference
153
4.5.4.
Fluidity and vagueness
154
4.5.5.
Ambivalence in legal language
155
4.6.
Legal discourse and legal communication
156
4.6.1.
Communication In law
157
4.6.2.
Information in law
158
4.6.3.
Continuity of information in law
160
4.6.4.
Signification in communication
161
4.6.5.
Creating the language of law
162
4.6.6.
Semiotics of legal discursiveness
164
pt. 5
Legal Argumentation between Discursiveness and Rationality
165
5.1.
Discursiveness and rationality
165
5.1.1.
Consequences of legal discursiveness
165
5.1.2.
Rationality and freedom as fundamental concepts of legal discourses
166
5.2.
Discursive rationality
167
5.2.1.
Free will and responsibility in legal texts and beyond
168
5.2.2.
Evidence
169
5.2.3.
Contradictions between words and deeds
170
5.2.4.
Linearity of language sublated
172
5.2.5.
Kant and Hegel contribute to shaping of legal discourses
173
5.3.
Legal reasoning and legal logic
178
5.3.1.
Facade-argumentation
178
5.3.2.
Law for logicians
179
5.3.3.
Law of punishment for logicians
180
5.3.4.
Legal definitions
181
5.4.
Talking like lawyers do
183
5.4.1.
Speaking in procedures
184
5.4.2.
Arbitrary use of language
185
5.4.3.
Lies as language use
186
5.4.4.
Abusing the credulity of others
187
5.4.5.
Commercial lies
191
5.5.
Anthropology of law
192
5.5.1.
Friends of irrationality
194
5.5.2.
Magic in law
195
5.5.3.
Male law and Female law
195
5.5.4.
Seclusion and crocodile tears in legal discourses
199
5.5.5.
Some myths in law
200
5.6.
Law as element of ethical and political discourses
200
5.6.1.
Human dimension in law
201
5.6.2.
Human rights discourse
202
5.7.
Converting words into respectable judicial discourses
203
5.7.1.
Metaphor of race as power device
204
5.7.2.
Requiem for race
206
5.7.3.
Problems with monarchs
208
5.8.
Law as a cultural phenomenon
209
pt. 6
Linguistic Turn in Law
211
6.1.
Negligence of legal science
211
6.1.1.
Shift towards language use
211
6.1.2.
Why care about language in life?
212
6.1.3.
Why care about language in law?
214
6.2.
What is language?
215
6.2.1.
True and comprehensive science of language
217
6.2.2.
Historical conceptions of linguistics
218
6.2.3.
Contemporary tendencies in linguistics
219
6.3.
Specific linguistics for legal sciences
221
6.3.1.
Developing a theory about language for law
222
6.3.2.
Choice of language
226
6.3.3.
Social character of legal language
226
6.3.4.
Language as tongue
228
6.3.5.
Illegal language -- using language and ending in jail
230
6.3.6.
Language in other contexts
230
6.4.
Return to concepts
231
6.4.1.
Concepts and terms in law
232
6.4.2.
Fundamental concepts
233
6.4.3.
Institutions and concepts
234
6.4.4.
Miranda rights
235
6.4.5.
Legalization of concepts
237
6.5.
Emergence of meaning in law
238
6.5.1.
Courts committed to 'ordinary meaning'
239
6.5.2.
Courts shape ordinary language
240
6.5.3.
Literal apprehension of meaning
241
6.5.4.
Heirs presumptive and presumptive heirs
242
6.5.5.
An attempt to privatize language
243
6.6.
Understandability, vagueness, ambiguity in law
244
6.6.1.
Plain language and plain law
245
6.6.2.
Could language in law be circumvented?
247
6.6.3.
Is content in law a linguistic trap?
248
6.6.4.
Another linguistic trap in law and its globalization: the custom
249
6.7.
Legal linguistics as fact in law
250
6.7.1.
Legal linguistics as an approach to law
250
6.7.2.
Ptolemaic v. Copernican legal linguistics
252
6.7.3.
Legal linguistics as a pragmatic theory of law
253
6.7.4.
Disruptive legal linguistics
254
6.7.5.
Legal semantics and legal pragmatics
255
6.8.
Dissolution of legal linguistics
257
6.8.1.
Is language an epiphenomenon in law?
258
6.8.2.
Norming in law
258
6.8.3.
Systematization in law
259
6.8.4.
Linguistic turn and iconic turn in law
260
6.9.
Perfect stability of legal science
262
pt. 7
Legal Narrativity or Law as Literature
265
7.1.
Narrativity of law
265
7.1.1.
Orality and literacy in law
266
7.1.2.
Written text and intertext
268
7.1.3.
Discourse analysis in law
269
7.1.4.
Proclaiming laws
271
7.1.5.
Stating the law
272
7.1.6.
Restating the Law
274
7.2.
Setting narrative patterns
275
7.2.1.
Contract as narrative
276
7.2.2.
Legal maxims
279
7.2.3.
Humorous use of legal language
279
7.2.4.
Assertion of facts as narrative
280
7.2.5.
Writings against the government
281
7.2.6.
Law's true face
283
7.3.
Law is also in the books
284
7.3.1.
Books help jurists more than one would think
285
7.3.2.
Founding discourses
286
7.3.3.
Constitutions as founding discourses
287
7.3.4.
America in the books
290
7.3.5.
America as favorite in a book
290
7.4.
Creating a state with words
292
7.4.1.
Federalists at work
296
7.4.2.
America for sale
299
7.4.3.
Hamilton fails
300
7.4.4.
Consequences for America
303
7.4.5.
Anti-narrativism and law
306
7.4.6.
How to make discourses of narratives?
310
7.4.7.
Importance of fundamental narratives for legal linguistics
313
7.5.
Literary law
314
7.5.1.
Law neglected by poets
319
7.5.2.
Robinson's law
320
7.5.3.
A stranger's law
323
7.5.4.
Expanding legal language
324
7.5.5.
Irony in literature about law
326
7.5.6.
Crimes witty and funny
328
7.5.7.
Undesirable class in law
329
7.5.8.
Literary bridges in legal discourses
330
7.5.9.
Law profoundly misunderstood by a big boy
333
7.6.
Rendering facts in law
334
7.6.1.
Presumption and fiction
335
7.6.2.
Precedents and no end?
336
7.6.3.
Some precedents value more than others
337
7.6.4.
How to drink coffee?
337
7.6.5.
Doing things in law
338
7.7.
Real law and literary law
339
pt. 8
Ubiquitous Legal Argumentation
341
8.1.
Going over bridges
341
8.1.1.
Formation of the notion of law in India
344
8.1.2.
Argumentation in Bhagavad Gita
347
8.1.3.
Sino-Indian argumentative transfers
348
8.1.4.
Sino-centric China
349
8.1.5.
Lexicology and lexicography
350
8.2.
Chinese law in comparative research
351
8.2.1.
Traditional Chinese Law
352
8.2.2.
What is Chinese Law?
354
8.2.3.
Reception of foreign law in China
355
8.2.4.
Legal terminology in the reception process
356
8.2.5.
Application of law
356
8.2.6.
Intertextuality of Chinese law
357
8.3.
Attitudes towards law in Japan
358
8.3.1.
Ideal of kingdom and Japanese imperial rhetoric
358
8.3.2.
Legal-linguistic changes in Japan's Constitutions
359
8.3.3.
Conflict resolution mechanisms in Japan
360
8.3.4.
Argumentation in Japanese court decisions
360
8.3.5.
Samples of Japanese court decisions
363
8.4.
Lex Mundi
364
8.4.1.
Global law as guiding idea in legal linguistics
367
8.4.2.
Global law as American law
369
8.4.3.
Globalization of law in comparative perspective
370
8.4.4.
What means that laws are different?
371
8.4.5.
Global law, space law and metalaw
373
8.4.6.
Monolingual law
374
8.5.
Translation in legal discourses
374
8.5.1.
Retrospective upon legal translation
375
8.5.2.
Conceptual interests in legal translation
376
8.5.3.
Legal translation as guest in legal linguistics
378
8.6.
Comparative legal linguistics and legal translation
378
8.6.1.
Legal methods in legal translation
379
8.6.2.
Literality of translation
381
8.6.3.
Commitment to translated message
382
8.6.4.
Translation mistakes
383
8.6.5.
Faux amis identified
384
8.7.
Pragmatic quantities and qualities
384
8.7.1.
Strategies in legal translation
385
8.7.2.
Institutional emergence of meaning in legal translation
386
8.7.3.
Facade translated
388
8.7.4.
Understandability of translated law
388
8.7.5.
Argumentation in translation
389
8.7.6.
Philosophical (theoretical) translatability
389
8.7.7.
Levels of non-translatability
390
8.7.8.
Readability of translated law
391
8.8.
Repositioning legal translation
392
8.8.1.
Discursive interest in translation
392
8.8.2.
Quality of language and quality of law
393
8.9.
Lessons learned from legal translation
393
pt. 9
Discursive Perspectives and New Horizons
395
9.1.
Legal discourse identified
395
9.1.1.
Discursive multiplicity further expanded
397
9.1.2.
Discursive multiplicity regulated
399
9.2.
Law based on regulative principles
400
9.2.1.
Would laws be drafted differently?
401
9.2.2.
Judgments as intellectual contributions
402
9.2.3.
Can jurists contribute more than discourses to law?
403
9.3.
Sense of law
405
9.3.1.
Axiological elements in legal discourses
406
9.3.2.
Law with a human face
407
9.4.
New horizons
408
9.4.1.
Relevance of historical matrix
409
9.4.2.
New Utopia
413
9.4.3.
On providing unsolicited advice
413
9.4.4.
State without law and law without state
414
9.4.5.
Missing language in absent discourses
415
9.5.
Law is in the air
416
Bibliography
419
Index of names
445
Index of matters
447