Contemporary issues of the semiotics of law : cultural and symbolic analyses of law in a global context /: cultural and symbolic analyses of law in a global context. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anne Wagner, Tracey Summerfield and Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas.
• Other Names: Wagner, Anne, 1968-; Summerfield, Tracey; Benavides, Farid Samir; Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
• Contents: Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; Biographical Notes; Introduction; Part I: The Interpretation and Pertinence of Law in the Global Age; 1. Refugee Meanings; INTRODUCTION; CLASS AND MEANING; COMMUNITY, TRADITION; THE OFFICIAL POSITIONINGS OF THE ASYLUM SEEKER: FROM CRIMINAL TO ENEMY; THE BARRED SUBJECT OF THE REFUGEE; 2. Citizens, Immigrants, Anarchists and Other Animals; INTRODUCTION; LIMITED BY THE LAW; IMMIGRANTS AND OTHERS; PROTESTS AND ANARCHISTS; PRESS AND PRESSURE; 3. The Dialogistic Nature of Brazil''s Arbitration Law 9.307/96; INTRODUCTION. DIALOGISM AND GENRELEGAL DIALOGISM; INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION; THE DIALOGISTIC LAW; CONCLUSION; 4. Constitutional ''Communarchy'': A Constitution with Chinese Characteristics; INTRODUCTION; CHARACTERISATION OF CONSTITUTIONS; FEATURES OF THE CHINESE CONSTITUTION; MAKING SENSE OF THE CHINESE CONSTITUTION; 5. The Quest for Certainty in Recent US Constitutional Scholarship: Original Intent and the Practice of Constitutional ''Creativity''; THE INSISTENCE ON ORIGINAL INTENT; DIFFICULTIES WITH ORIGINAL INTENT; CONFRONTING THE HISTORICAL REALITY OF CONSTITUTIONAL 'CREATIVITY'; WILL CHAOS ENSUE? CONCLUSION6. Celebrity as Authority in Law; INTRODUCTION; CELEBRITY STATUS; CELEBRITY AS A KIND OF AUTHORITY; CELEBRITY LEGAL PRACTICE; CONCLUSION; 7. Writing Around the Censor: Gypsies, Thieves, and Rebels in Early Modern Spain; CENSORED WRITING: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW; LITERARY DISCOURSE: A TOOL OF SUBVERSION; SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF WRITING AROUND THE CENSOR; Part II: Cultural and Symbolic Analyses of the Law in Context; 8. Subversion in the World of Order: Legal Deconstruction as a Rhetorical Practice; INTRODUCTION; LEADING SOULS; PRINT AND ORALITY; RETRACING RHETORIC; THE SOPHISTS AGAIN. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MANY FRIENDSCONCLUSION; 9. The Substantive Issue and the Rhetoric of the Abortion Debate in Ireland; INTRODUCTION; THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT; THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT, JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION AND THE START OF THE RHETORIC OF ABORTION IN IRELAND; THE X CASE; THE SUBSTANTIVE ISSUE; THE C CASE; ANOTHER REFERENDUM: ANOTHER DISCOURSE?; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; 10. Wealth of Terms -- Scarcity of Justice? Term Formation in Statutory Definitions; INTRODUCTION; STATUTORY DEFINITIONS; MATERIALS AND METHODS; ANALYSIS; DISCUSSION. 11. Enduring Signs and Obscure Meanings: Contested Coats of Arms in Australian JurisdictionsINTRODUCTION; LOST TRADITIONS; POLITICAL PROJECTS; THE POWER OF THE OBJECT; OBSCURITY; CONCLUSION: ENDURANCE; 12. Critical Race Reggae: The Sound of a Narrative; I; IICRITICAL RACE THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION; IIITHE FIRST VERSE: REGGAE AS REVOLUTION; IVTHE SECOND VERSE: CRITICAL RACE THEORY AS REGGAE MUSIC; VTHE CHORUS: A REGGAE REPUBLIC; VILINER NOTES: CONCLUSION; 13. Cromer''s Olde England and the Dome''s New Britain: Two Same/Different Imageries of the Law of Britain''s Empire; INTRODUCTION.
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Hart
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 275 pages)
• Subjects: 340.14; Semiotics (Law); Sémiotique (Droit); LAW -- Jurisprudence; LAW -- General Practice; LAW -- Reference; LAW -- Essays; LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism; LAW -- Practical Guides; Semiotics (Law); Philosophie du droit; Sémiotique; Sociologie du droit; Rechtssociologie; Semiotiek; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847312068; 1847312063; 9781841135458; 1841135453; 9781841135465; 1841135461
• Related ISBNs: 1841135453; 1841135461
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-266) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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