Lawyers Making Meaning The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education II /

• Main Authors: Broekman, Jan M. (Author), Cat ̉Backer, Larry. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Law.; Linguistics > Philosophy.; Sign language.; Developmental psychology.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Communication Studies.; Philosophy of Language.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Sign Language.; Developmental Psychology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5458-4

This book present a structure for understanding and exploring the semiotic character of law and law systems. Cultivating a deep understanding for the ways in which lawyers make meaning<U+0014>the way in which they help make the world and are made, in turn by the world they create <U+0014>...

Table of Contents:

• Contents
• Preface
• Part I Face-To-Face With Legal Semiotics
• 1.Semiotics: A Fresh Start For Law
• 2.Signs, and Signs in Law
• Part II Godfathers of Semiotics
• 3. Peirce and Legal Semiotics
• 4. Greimas, Law, Discourse and Interpretative Squares
• 5.Lacan: The Semiotics of Law's Voices. - 6.Those Three Godfathers, After All
• Part III Jurisprudence and Legal Semiotics
• 7. Legal Theory And Semiotics
• 8. Politics, Semiotics and Law
• 9. Structuralism and Legal Semiotics
• Part IV Doing and Saying Legal Semiotics
• 10. The Legal Semiotic Modus Operandi
• 11. Artificiality and Naturalness: The Tyche Deity
• 12. A Vocabulary
• 13. A Bibliography
• 14. Name Index
• 15. Subject Index.