Law and Language: A Hermeneutics of the Legal Text

Bruns, Gerald L.

doi:10.1525/9780520329386-004

Cited by 5 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The limits of the literal meaning that are revealed by the contextuality of the communicative meaning and the limits of the concretising approach of the communicative meaning are revealed by the inevitability of choice. Bruns (1992, 32) summarises it nicely by saying that…”

Section: The Science Of Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Trialectics” of Legal Interpretation

ČERVINKA

2022

Ratio Juris

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Law is perceived as a stabilising mechanism in an everchanging world and, as such, is founded on the quest for the one “true” meaning of legal norms as a basis for the rule of law. But I shall suggest that it is futile to seek a fixed meaning of legal norms or the one “true” method for interpreting them. The argument will be built by first considering the “trialectics” between hermeneutics, linguistics, and jurisprudence, and then taking a systematic approach to law itself, to this end drawing inspiration from the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. I shall finally argue for the necessity of a more procedural understanding of the rule of law.

show abstract

Section: The Science Of Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Trialectics” of Legal Interpretation

ČERVINKA

2022

Ratio Juris

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…PULLED UP SHORT While we may know how to get around in the world, the world also escapes being confined within what Bruns calls "the conceptual apparatus I have prepared for it, or that my time and place have prepared for it." 10 This does not mean that the world lies before us as an alien object upon which we gaze as detached spectators. The world, after all, is our abode, the medium of our lives.…”

Section: Lived Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Understanding rather involves "having an internal connection with what is understood." 22 Connection does not mean we vicariously experience or empathetically identify with the text's world. Assumptions are not confirmed when we understand on this level.…”

Section: Educational Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pulled Up Short: Challenges for Education

Kerdeman

2003

pesf

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We must learn how to lose the game -that begins with the age of two or maybe even earlier. He, who has not learned this early, will not be able to completely handle the greater tasks of adult life. 1 Reb Saunders, a character in Chaim Potok's novel, The Chosen, poses the following questions about his son's education: I looked at my Daniel when he was four years old, and I said to myself, How will I teach this mind what it is to have a soul? How will I teach this mind to understand pain? How will I teach it to want to take on another person's suffering? 2

show abstract

Critical hermeneutics and American legal interpretation:Asearch for the meaning ofnew york times v. sullivan

Allen

1999

Angelaki

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Law and Language: A Hermeneutics of the Legal Text

Cited by 5 publications

References 0 publications

“Trialectics” of Legal Interpretation

“Trialectics” of Legal Interpretation

Pulled Up Short: Challenges for Education

Critical hermeneutics and American legal interpretation:Asearch for the meaning ofnew york times v. sullivan

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About