New rhetorics for contemporary legal discourse / edited by Angela Condello.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : New Rhetoric's Tattered Examples / Peter Goodrich -- Exemplarity and the Resonance of Reasoning / Mark Antaki -- In and 'Out of Joint', In and Out of the Norm : On Rhetoric and Law / Angela Condello -- From the Norms-Facts Dichotomy to the System-Problem Connection in the Judicial Realisation of Law : Logical Deduction v. Analogical Judgment in Adjudication / Ana Margarida Simões Gaudêncio -- Multiculturalism and Criminal Law : Between the Universal and the Particular / Leandro Santos Da Guarda -- Cognitive Populism : A Semiotic Reading of the Dialectics Type/Token / Massimo Leone -- Exemplarity as Concreteness, or the Challenge of Institutionalising a Productive Circle between Past and Present, Old and New / José Manuel Aroso Linhares -- What is Happening to the Norm? Gender as Paradigm of a Deformalised Neo-legal Positivism / Silvia Niccolai -- Hypothetically Speaking : How to Argue about Meaning / Karen Petroski -- Showing by Fiction : Audience of Extra-legal References in Judicial Decisions / Terezie Smejkalová / Law as a System of Topoi : Sources of Arguments v. Sources of Law / Anita Soboleva.

Are the general and the particular separated in legal rhetorics? What is the function of singular events, facts, names in legal argumentation and what is their relationship to legal normativity? This collection of 11 essays takes a diachronic approach to address these questions from the perspective of contemporary legal discourse.

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