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)