Prospects of Legal Semiotics
Published on 2. February 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXV, 244 pages
978-94-007-3985-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the progress to date in the many facets - conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfilment of the promise of legal semiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation.This study in Legal Semiotics brings together the theory, structure and practise of legal semiotics in an accessible style. The book introduces the concepts of legal semiotics and offers an insight in contemporary and future directions which the semiotics of law is going to take.A theoretical and practical oriented synthesis of the historical, contemporary and most recent ideas pertaining to legal semiotics, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in law and social sciences , as well as those who are interested in the interdisciplinary dynamics of law and semiotics.
Reviews / Votes
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"This fascinating book makes a significant contribution to an understanding of legal semiotics through its diverse collection of essays that approach the field from both a theoretical and practical perspective. The book's attempt to synthesize historical, contemporary and future ideas on legal semiotics will be of particular interest to scholars in law and the social sciences." (Letetia van der Poll, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 25, 2012)More details
Edition
2011 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XXV, 244 p. 5 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-007-3985-7 (9789400739857)
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-9343-1
Schweitzer Classification
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Anne Wagner | Jan M. Broekman
Prospects of Legal Semiotics
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10/2010
Springer
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Prospects of Legal Semiotics
E-Book
09/2010
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Content
Part I - Deconstructing Legal Semiotics.- Chapter 1 - Legal Semiotics and Semiotic Aspects of Jurisprudence; Bernard Jackson.- Chapter 2 - Firstness and phenomenology - Peirce and Husserl on Attitude Change; Jan M. Broekman.- Chapter 3 - The gift and the meaning-giving subject: a reading of Given Time; Jacques de Ville.- Chapter 4 - Resources for a Dialectical Legal Semiotics?Michael Salter.- Part II -Legal Semiotics as Communication.- Chapter 5 - The problems of the subjects; Louis Wolcher.- Chapter 6 - Law and governance in prophetic painting: Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Gilles Deleuze'; Ronnie Lippens.- Chapter 7 - Visual Law: The Changing Signifiers of Law in Popular Visual Culture; Jason Brainbridge.- Chapter 8 - Legal Controversies about the Establishment of New Places of Worship in Multicultural Cities: A Semiogeographic Analysis;Massimo Leone.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.