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Book 2014.0

Semiotic models of legal argumentation

Vadim Verenitš

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Social Tartu University Press 9789949325016 Available

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Notes: Articles included: Charles Sanders Peirce, A Mastermind of (Legal) Arguments (2012), On relationships between the logic of law, legal positivism and semiotics of law (2011), The Semiotic Model of Legal Reasoning (2012), The Case of Lauris Kaplinski: A Guide to a Semiotic Reading of Incitement of Hatred in Modern Criminal Justice (2013), The Splendors and MIseries of Constitutional Reasoning in Times of Global Crisis: A Critical look from the Realist Perspectives of Semiotics (2013)

Annotation: The present doctoral dissertation is an exercise in exposition, comparison, criticism and construction, and this is the result of a project conceived ten years ago. We have taken different traditions of legal reasoning, and by juxtaposing them have sought to clarify and assess semiotic presuppositions, in order to outline a theoretical framework of legal semiotics that would help to lay the foundations for semiotic theory of legal argumentation. These semiotic presuppositions have been the object of our study at the University of Tartu since our bachelor's thesis (defended in 2001) and master's thesis (defended in 2006). Our interest in legal semiotics was motivated by a very strong sense of dissatisfaction with the traditional methods and paradigms of contemporary jurisprudence, especially with those ones of legal argumentation. Traditional jurisprudence committed to a model of legal unity, does not for the most part seeks to describe how the views of legal actors interact with the views of other legal actors/participants of legal discourse in real situations of legal communication. Thus, it was the consideration of legal communication as a semiotic activity that caused us to doubt that law could be conceived in terms of traditional legal concepts. Legal semiotics can be regarded as a major advance because it debunks the prevailing assumptions about the nature of legal reasoning and replaces them with what seems a far superior explanation. The main scientific objectives of this dissertation can be briefly formulated as follows: 1) to develop a conceptual framework for practical handling of complex problems of legal argumentation as they occur in the stages of legal communication; 2) to assess issues of compatibility/conflict between existing methods of legal reasoning and our semiotic model of legal reasoning; 3) to bridge the compatible aspects of different theories/models of legal argumentation to establish a generalizable model of legal argumentation.

Identifier: 9789949325016

Status: Available

Book 1998.0

Cultural Semiosis

Edited by Hugh J. Silverman

Culture Routledge 0415919541 Available

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Other title information: Tracing the signifier

Annotation: This book contains works of authors: Hugh J. Silverman, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Francois Raffoul, Kelly Oliver, Stephanie John Sage, Mark Roberts, Debra B. Bergoffen, M. Alison Arnett, Julia Kristeva, John Llewelyn, Michael Naas, Adi Ophir

Identifier: 0415919541

Status: Available

Book 1995.0

Beyond Textuality

edited by Gilles Bibeau and Ellen Corin

Culture Mouton de Gruyter 3110138891 Available

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Other title information: Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation

Annotation: In this volume, editors want to translate the basic ambiguity experienced today by anthropologists about the identity of their discipline, as well as the uncertainty surrounding the boundaries of the territory covered by ethnography.

Identifier: 3110138891

Status: Available

Book 1994.0

The Socialness of Things

edited by Stephen Harold Riggins

Social Mouton de Gruyter 3110141337 Available

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Other title information: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects

Notes: This book is based on the proceedings of an international conference which took place at the University of Toronto in 1990.

Annotation: The term "socialness" is a neologism that is used in this volume to call attention to the integration of objects in the social fabric of everyday life. Specialists in material culture studies have understood for some time, that societies consist of both people and artifacts. It is not only with people and animals that we interact but also with objects. The chapters in the first part of the volume deal with artefacts such as furniture, mementoes, and knickknacks, which can be manipulated as social "others" – entities with which one can socialize or make a part in socialisation processes such as establishing a bond, conveying a message, etc. The second section of articles concerns artefacts whose dimensions take such proportions that humans become dwarfed with respect to them, such as tourists travelling to visit them or shoppers being herded through their artificial geography as if flowing within an oversized organism. In the concluding section, the artefacts examined are by contrast so adjusted to the proportion of the human body, so close to it that they become an indissociable part of the social persona sticking to the skin, expressing better than any other means of the socialness - fashion.

Identifier: 3110141337

Status: Available