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Law and Semiotics

Volume 2

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Roberta Kevelson

    1. Pennsylvania State University, Reading, USA

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction to the Second Round Table on Law and Semiotics

    • Roberta Kevelson
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Semiotics of Finnish Constitutional Law on Government Finance

    • Pertti Ahonen
    Pages 13-30

  4. How Judges Fool Themselves

    • Robert W. Benson
    Pages 31-60

  5. What is a Hay Baler?

    • Denis J. Brion
    Pages 61-85

  6. Drafting and Interpreting Legal Documents

    • Jovan Brkić, Norman Anderson
    Pages 87-104

  7. Metaphor and Adlinguisticity in the Literary Language of Michel Foucault

    • Pompeu Casanovas i Romeu
    Pages 105-121

  8. Mediation and Conflicts of Moralities

    • William C. Charron
    Pages 123-134

  9. Decoding the Code

    • Maurizio Colmegna
    Pages 135-141

  10. Modalities of Annunciation

    • Peter Goodrich
    Pages 143-165

  11. Statutes in Common Law and Civil Law

    • Maarten Henket
    Pages 167-188

  12. The New Realism and Lawlessness in Kaleidoscope

    • Roberta Kevelson
    Pages 189-208

  13. The Problem of Mother’s Brother in “Oedipus”

    • Jay A. Knaack
    Pages 209-219

  14. Law and The Importance of Feelings

    • John Lachs
    Pages 221-227

  15. Rhetoric and Legitimation

    • Margaret M. Michels
    Pages 229-240

  16. The Verdict

    • Moylan C. Mills
    Pages 241-248

  17. The Technologizing of the Law

    • Harold C. Morris
    Pages 249-256

  18. Sign of the Crimes

    • Philip Mosley
    Pages 257-269

  19. Gender and Justice in Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of her Peers”

    • Leonard Mustazza
    Pages 271-276

  20. Eric Voegelin’s Semiotics of History

    • William Pencak
    Pages 277-291
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About this book

of those problems in law which we inherit and/or retrieve in order to reconstruct and interpret in the light of legal semiotics, however defined. In addition to three main areas of underlying metaphysical assumptions there are also three main areas of possible editorial focus and these should be mentioned. The three areas of focus are: 1) the state-of-the-art of legal semiotics; 2) the dynamic, intense and exceptionally interactive quality of conference participation, and 3) the content of the papers presented which is the material of this volume. My choice of this triad of focal possibilities is to exclude the last since the papers speak for themselves and need but a brief reportorial caption. I also eliminate the second possible focus as the main focus since the discussion was not taped for editing into this volume and must remain for all those who participated a quality of scholarly meetings to be remembered, savored and hoped for. My main focus is on the "state-of-the-art" of legal semiotics. II At the conclusion of the First Round Table on Law and Semiotics (1987) it was noted that there were no working paradigms, in Kuhn's sense, that thus far emerged but rather that several problematic areas were disclosed which warrant attention. Therefore the first concern of Legal Semiotics should be to address the surface, i. e.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pennsylvania State University, Reading, USA

    Roberta Kevelson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Law and Semiotics

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 2

  • Editors: Roberta Kevelson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0771-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43111-1Due: 01 March 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8074-3Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-0771-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 382

  • Topics: Public International Law, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, general

  • Industry Sectors: Law

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