Publications

Publication details [#39334]

Butters, Ronald. 2004. How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of a Massachusetts Lottery Game Card. Applied Linguistics 25 (4) : 466–490.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

game theory | law | linguistics | pragmatics | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study which applies linguistics to the field of language and law, analyzes the semantic, pragmatic, and semiotic bases for the prize claimants' and the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission's conflicting interpretations of game-card instructions.