| Description |
xiv, 257 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Semiotics : a fresh start for law -- Signs, and signs in law -- Peirce and legal semiotics -- Greimas, law, discourse and interpretative squares : the precursor De Saussure -- Greimas, law, discourse and interpretative squares : an author, his squares and legal discourse analysis -- Lacan : the semiotics of law's voices -- Those three godfathers, after all -- Legal theory and semiotics : on the origins of legal semiotics -- Legal theory and semiotics : semiotics, theory and practice of law -- Legal theory and semiotics : the legal semiotics critical approach -- Politics, semiotics and law : self and state -- Politics, semiotics and law : person and thing -- Structuralism and legal semiotics -- The legal semiotic modus operandi -- The legal semiotic modus operandi : squares -- The legal semiotic modus operandi : names -- Artificiality and naturalness : the Tyche deity -- A legal semiotics vocabulary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-250) and index |
| Subject |
Law -- Interpretation and construction.
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Law -- Language.
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Law -- Study and teaching.
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Semiotics (Law)
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| Author |
Backer, Larry Catá.
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| ISBN |
9400754574 (acid-free paper) |
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9789400754577 (acid-free paper) |
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