The pragmatic turn in law : inference and interpretation in legal discourse / edited by Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dedicated to the memory of Peter Tiersma / Larry Solan -- Introduction / Janet Giltrow -- Linguistic-pragmatic approaches to inference in law. Telling it slant : toward a taxonomy of deception / Laurence R. Horn ; Cooperation in Chinese courtroom discourse / Meizhen Liao and Yadi Sun ; Inference and intention in legal interpretation / Nicholas Allott and Benjamin Shaer ; Pragmatics and legal texts : how best to account for the gaps between literal meaning and communicative meaning / Brian G. Slocum ; One ambiguity, three legal approaches / Lawrence M. Solan -- Horizons of inference : Extending the context of interpretation. Between similarity and analogy : rethinking the role of prototypes in law and cognitive linguistics / Angela Condello and Alexandra Arapinis ; When is an insult a crime? On diverging conceptualizations and changing legislation / Klaus P. Schneider and Dirk Zielasko ; Pragmatic interpretation by judges : constrained performatives and the deployment of gender bias / Frances Olsen ; Disguising the dynamism of the law in Canadian courts : judges using dictionaries / Shurli Makmillen and Margery Fee -- Across borders : new methods for study of inference. Legal translation pragmatics : legal meaning as text-external convention -- the case of 'chattels' / Svetlana V. Vlasenko ; Calculating legal meanings? Drawbacks and opportunities of corpus-assisted legal linguistics to make the law (more) explicit / Friedemann Vogel ; The common error in theories of adjudication : an inferentialist argument for a doctrinal conception / Ralf Poscher ; On inferencing in law / Dieter Stein.

This collection of contributions from both linguists and lawyers brings a pragmatic perspective to the linguistic basis for legal meaning and for finding a norm by which to decide a case. That is, it turns from notions of linguistic meaning as residing in the text, as literal meaning waiting to be dug out, to focus instead on how readers infer pragmatic meaning, and on the kinds of inferencing that characterise legal discourse.

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