Between Text, Meaning and Legal Languages - Linguistic Approaches to Legal Interpretation

This collection on legal interpretation in a broad sense presents state-of-the-art linguistic approaches that are applied for studying interpretation and meaning generation in various legal settings. It covers different aspects of the concepts like judicial dissent, court argumentation, investigating sociological meaning, or comparing legal meaning in comparative law. Scholars can turn to the volume for methods and findings to ground their own inquiries, and students will find guides to topics and methods in the field of law, meaning generation, and language.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jan Engberg (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9783112214787
• ISBN: 978-3-11-221478-7
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 13 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 323 g
• Illustrations: 2 b/w and 7 col. ill., 6 b/w tbl.
• Series: Foundations in Language and Law [FLL]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Interpretation, Mehrsprachigkeit, Methoden, Soziolinguistik, Linguistics, Psycholinguistik und Kognitive Linguistik, Methods, Rechtssprache, Multilingualism, SCI000000 SCIENCE / General, Juristische Interpretation, legal linguistics