TY - BOOK AU - Arzoumanov,Anna AU - Giltrow,Janet AU - Goźdź-Roszkowski,Stanisław AU - Guillén Nieto,Victoria AU - Livingston Slosser,Jacob AU - Mancini,Donato AU - Olsen,Frances AU - Pirker,Benedikt AU - Smolka,Jennifer AU - Vanden Bosch,James AU - Vlasenko,Svetlana V. TI - Legal Meanings: The Making and Use of Meaning in Legal Reasoning T2 - Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] , SN - 9783110720914 AV - K237 .L4453 2021 U1 - 340 PY - 2021///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Communication in law KW - Law KW - Interpretation and construction KW - Language KW - Gerichtshof KW - Linguistik KW - Recht KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Courts KW - Linguistics N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Legal meanings: Introduction --; Freedom of art in French legal proceedings: A discourse analysis perspective --; “What else can you do to pass . . . ?”: A pragmatics-based approach to quid pro quo sexual harassment --; Hostility to religion or protection against discrimination? Evaluation and argument in a case of conflicting principles --; Heller (2008) and the language of the Second Amendment: Grammar, meaning, and canonical conventions --; Experimental legal linguistics: A research agenda --; Pragmatics and the interpretation of international law: Two Relevance Theory-based approaches --; Temporal meanings in legal translation: English-Russian lacunas and associated semantic uncertainties --; Subject index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - This collection is about how law makes meaning and how meaning makes law. Through clear methodology and substantial findings, chapters expose the deficits of ‘literal’ meaning and the difficulties in 'ordinary' meaning, in international legal contexts and in more immediate social ones, as well as in courtrooms. Further, chapters in this volume see the challenges to national and international commitments to all speakers sharing a common meaning UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110720969 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110720969 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110720969/original ER -