International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique
Le discours législatif fonde sa dynamique par la régle de droit qui emprunte ses modes d'organisation de sens, à l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne et sa codification, au langage issu de ces interférences. La construction, écrite et coutumière, génère des effets de rigidité par l'élaboration de prescriptions modélisées. L'organisation sémantique de son contenu permet, par la malléabilité d'usage du...
The thesis here expounded can be divided in three parts: in the first place, it is supposed that the syllogism is not the rhetorical way, and less still the logical way, indeed used to reach the decision in the legal proceedings monopolized by the modern State. At the most, it can be seen as a form of presenting a decision that has already been reached by other means. It sure constitutes a highly...
The article discusses the legal performatives as used in Chinese legislative language consisting of bixu (shall), yingdang (should or ought to), keyi (may) and bude (shall not) with the illocutionary force of imposing obligations, conferring rights and permission, and prohibition (bude). It postulates that the use of bixu and yingdang is traceable to the influence of the ancient Chinese cultural and...
This paper analyses some of the rhetorical and linguistic features of two judges' summations to two different juries in a criminal case that was tried twice in the Tasmanian Criminal Court. In the first trial, the jury failed to reach a verdict upon a number of counts in the indictment. In the second trial, the jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts. The purpose of this paper is to cast light...