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

By Jan Engberg

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311079960X
• ISBN13: 9783110799606
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary