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Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics

Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics

Name: Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781802207255
Price: 3102.06 HKD
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Author: Anne Wagner; Sarah Marusek
ISBN: 9781802207255

Edited by Anne Wagner · Sarah Marusek

Edward Elgar Publishing November 2023

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ISBN-13: 9781802207255
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: November 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This comprehensive Research Handbook explores the wide variety of work conducted in legal semiotics, providing a thorough understanding of how the law works through signs and symbols. Demonstrating that the law is a strategical system of fluctuating signs, contributors critically analyse the ever-evolving conceptualisations of law and legal discourse.

Bringing together leading international experts, this Research Handbook focuses on the material, everyday forms of law comprised by non-verbal legal semiotics. Contributors conduct culturally nuanced semiotic analyses of the modern world, covering topics from COVID-19, religion, and human rights, to comic books and music. Chapters consider the foundations of semiotics, as well as the philosophy of law, identifying the cross-cultural similarities in how legal semiotics and visual legal semiotics intersect. Ultimately, the Research Handbook demonstrates that the law is in a state of perpetual flux, with many unique dimensions only made visible by semiotic analysis.

The Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of law, jurisprudence, legal culture, linguistics, and semiotics. It will also be an important guide for legal practitioners seeking to better understand the nuances of the legal system.

Foreword xviii; John Brigham; Preface xxiv; Acknowledgements xxv; Introduction: law as a strategical system of fluctuating signs 1; Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek; PART I. LEGAL SEMIOTICS AS AN ARENA FOR LEGAL THOUGHTS; 1.
Understanding legal semiotics 11: Paolo Heritier; 2.
From analytical philosophy of law to legal semiotics 32: Marek Zirk-Sadowski; 3.
Legal philosophy and the promise(s) of legal semiotics 47: José Manuel Aroso Linhares; 4.
Legal semiotics, globalization, and governance 61: Larry Catá Backer; 5.
Legal semiotics and synaesthesia 86: Rostam J. Neuwirth; 6.
Constitutional semiotics as a post-positivist and post-modern approach to constitution and constitutionalism based on the linguistic, visual and emotional turns 105: Martin Belov; 7.
Semiotics and the space-time ingredients of legal experience 120: Mario Ricca; 8.
Narrative identity and human beings’ legal subjectivity 135: Bartosz Wojciechowski; 9.
Classical rhetoric, legal argumentation and the semiotics of law 146: Miklós Könczöl; 10.
Legal semiotics and Chinese philosophy 158: Magdalena Łągiewska; PART II. CULTURE-BOUND LEGAL SEMIOTICS, THE BACKBONE OF THE LAW; 11.
Law and religion in the United States and Japan: a comparative semiotic perspective 171: Frank S. Ravitch; 12.
The view: propertizing the visibility of distance 184: Sarah Marusek and Anne Wagner; 13.
Semiotic insecurity and fake news law 193: Ahmad Pakatchi; 14.
Beware of (bad and dangerous) metaphors: remarks made at the intersection of cognitive linguistics and law 209: Angela Condello; 15.
Semiotics of international law 220: Michael Salter; 16.
Introducing forensic semiotics in criminal investigations 237: Marcel Danesi; 17.
Legal semiotics and types of arguments in human rights cases in Russia 254: Anita Soboleva; 18.
Semiotics and cultural heritage law 267: Kamil Zeidler; 19.
Semiotics of trademark law and brand intellectual property 278: Kristian Bankov; 20.
Legal semiotics, culture and femi(ni)cide 289: Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas; 21.
Sex trafficking of girl children: a legal semiotics study of the Convention on the Rights of the Child 300: Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati; 22.
Coloniality, international human rights and legal semiotics from the margins 313: Elisabeth Roy Trudel and Amy Swiffen; PART III. VISUAL LEGAL SEMIOTICS AS A FIGURATIVE SIGN-SYSTEM; 23.
Imaginal law 327: Peter Goodrich; 24.
The two-sided E-Agora 2.0: demojicracy and demonjicracy 338: Anne Wagner, Wei Yu, and Sarah Marusek; 25.
Photography, art, crime and law 353: Anita Lam; 26.
Image and the law – a Peircean approach to Mask Required posters during the COVID-19 pandemic 366: Nathalie Hauksson-Tresch; 27.
Cars and hate: legal semiotics of automobility and combustion masculinity 376: Kieran Tranter and Sarah Marusek; 28.
Legal semiotics, signs of colonization, signs of independence in India 394: Parineet Kaur; 29.
Comics and the law: jurisprudence with a comic face 404: Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça and Mark Thomas; 30.
Legal and social semiotics of environmental challenges 419: Dariusz J. Gwiazdowicz and Aleksandra Matulewska; 31.
Semiotic (de)construction of judges’ identities in China’s internet courts 433: Youping Xu; 32.
Legal scenographies and courts: tensions between past and present 447: Patrícia Branco; 33.
Law, music and semiotics 460: Robbie Sykes and Julia J.A. Shaw; Index 479