Legal Meanings - The Making and Use of Meaning in Legal Reasoning

This collection is about how law makes meaning and how meaning makes law. Through clear methodology and substantial findings, chapters expose the deficits of 'literal' meaning and the difficulties in 'ordinary' meaning, in international legal contexts and in more immediate social ones, as well as in courtrooms. Further, chapters in this volume see the challenges to national and international commitments to all speakers sharing a common meaning.

About the author

Janet Giltrow, Univ. British Columbia, Canada; Frances Olsen, Univ. California, USA; Donato Mancini, Independent Scholar, Canada.

Product details

• Assisted by: Janet Giltrow (Editor), Donato Mancini (Editor), Frances Olsen (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2023
• EAN: 9783111266107
• ISBN: 978-3-11-126610-7
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 12 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 306 g
• Illustrations: 6 b/w ill., 2 b/w tbl.
• Series: ISSN; Foundations in Language and Law [FLL]; Foundations in Language and Law [FLL], 1
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics