Pragmatics and Law

Preface by F. Poggi.- Part I Pragmatics and Legal Interpretation.- 1. Slippery Meaning and Accountability by Kasia M. Jaszczolt.- Implicitness in Normative Texts by Marina Sbisà.- 3. What Inferentialism tells us About Vagueness in Law by Damiano Canale.- 4. On the Possibility of Non-Literal Legislative Speech by Hrafn Asgeirsson.- 5. The Pragmatics of Scepticism by Pierluigi Chiassoni.- 6. Doubting Legal Language: Interpretive Scepticism and Legal Practice by Nicola Muffato.- 7. Legal Text and Pragmatics: Semantic Battles or the Power of the Declarative in Specialized Discourse by Ekkehard Felder.- Part II Pragmatics and Legal Theory.- 8. A Puzzle about Internal Legal Statements by Michael S. Green.- 9. Can Metalinguistic Negotiations and 'Conceptual ethics' Rescue Legal Positivism? By Teresa Marques.- 10. The Dark Side of Imperatives by Alession Sardo.- 11. Disputable Means: Pragmatic Knowledge Practices in Sovereign Debt Agreements. A Case of Study by Leticia Barrera.- 12. The Role of Pragmatics in the Web of Data by Pompeu Casanovas, Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel, and Jorge González-Conejero.- Part III Pragmatics and Legal Adjudication.- 13. Pragmatics of Adjudication. In the Footsteps of Alf Ross by Mauro Barberis.- 14. Pragmatic Disorders in Forensic Settings by Louise Cummings.- 15. The Pragmatics of Stereotypes in Legal Decision-Making by Federico José Arena.- 16. Epistemic Stance in Courtroom Interaction by Sune Sønderberg Mortensen and Janus Mortensen.- 17. Assessing Testimony and Other Evidencial Sources in Law: An Epistemological Approach by Hernán Bouvier and Florencia Rimoldi.

"The contributions in the book discuss highly complex questions at the interface between the philosophy of law, philosophy of language, and pragmatics. ... Overall, this is a well-edited book which will hopefully inspire future research. It represents an important contribution to the understanding of the pragmatic aspects of the relationship between language and law, and it is a valuable resource for scholars interested in legal theory, philosophy of law, philosophy of language, semantics, pragmatics, and legal linguistics." (Lelija Socanac, The Linguist List, linguistlist.org, June, 2017)