Existing work documents that legal linguistics has moved
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Existing work documents that legal linguistics has moved from formalistic to pragmatic approaches, but does not examine whether this transition parallels Wittgenstein's shift from his early to later philosophy of language, nor does it analy
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Stated in the abstract and synthesized sections of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2013 and 2021, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 2 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- METODY BADANIA JĘZYKA PRAWNEGO WOBEC ONTOLOGICZNEJ NATURY PRAWA (2013) · Comparative Legilinguistics · doi
The author also states that the theory of legal language could be studied only in the context of legal language, used by professional lawyers who deal with legal practice and legal education, as well as in opposition to the other object languages, from which legal language takes its linguistic forms to communicate the content belonging to various fields of legal regulations, as well as in opposition to general language which constitutes the ethnic basis of legal language.
generalstated in abstractevidence 5/5Keywords: legal language well opposition author states theory studied context used professional lawyers deal practice education - On Some of the Aspects of the Linguistic Theory of Law (2016) · Studies in Logic Grammar and Rhetoric · doi
Existing work documents that legal linguistics has moved from formalistic to pragmatic approaches, but does not examine whether this transition parallels Wittgenstein's shift from his early to later philosophy of language, nor does it analyze what conceptual insights such a parallel might yield for understanding law's evolution.
generalstated in synthesizedevidence 5/5Keywords: existing work documents legal linguistics has moved formalistic - Legal and linguistic theory as a component of general and theoretical legal science: propedeutic aspect (2021) · Uzhhorod National University Herald Series Law · cited 2× · doi
Prior research identifies that law and language share a symbolic nature and are intertwined cultural phenomena, but does not systematically investigate how the formal character of law (independence of form from substantive content) relates to or derives from philosophical theories of language meaning, particularly Wittgensteinian accounts.
generalstated in synthesizedevidence 5/5Keywords: prior research identifies law language share symbolic nature
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