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Publication details [#31902]

Dascal, Marcelo and Jerzy Wróblewski. 1991. The rational law-maker and the pragmatics of legal interpretation. Journal of Pragmatics 15 (5) : 421–444.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interpretation | legal text | pragmatics | rationality

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper on the pragmatics of legal interpretation presents theoretical constructs of a 'rational law-maker' and a 'rational law-interpreter', and examines their role in legal reasoning, in the determination of the meaning of legal texts, and in the ideologies of legal interpretation.