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This book deals with speech acts, especially performatives, that are regarded as 'operative' in legal discourse. After a detailed exposition of speech act theory in relation to legislative texts, the author discusses the legal document as a communicative act; potential speech acts and delegated legislation; wills, the marriage ceremony and statutes as reversible performatives; and the distinction between the deictic function of this and the anaphoric function of that in legal documents. The final chapter is concerned with another text type, case reports, and addresses the questio

Stilistics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- 802.0-56 --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Recht. Taal. --- Actes de paroles. --- Droit. Langage. --- Taalhandelingen. --- Law --- Semantics (Law) --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Language, Legal --- Legal language --- Legal style --- Style, Legal --- Bill drafting --- Language. --- Philosophy --- Droit --- Semantique --- Langage

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The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to their context, too. Following an introduction which puts this new approach into a thematical and historical perspective, the volume presents fifteen studies in the following areas: The semantics of space dynamics (mainly on French prepositions); Language acquisition (aphasia and code-switching); Artificial intelligence (mainly of English prepositions); Specific languages: Hebrew (from a number of perspectives - syntax, semiotics, and sociolinguistic impact on morphology), Maltese, the Melanesian English-based Creole Bislama, and Biblical translations into Judeo-Greek.

801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Pragmatics. --- Prepositions. --- Syntax. --- Pragmatiek --- Pragmatique --- Semantics --- Semantiek --- Sémantique --- Sémasiologie --- Semantics. --- Prépositions --- Syntaxe --- Sémantique --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Syntax --- Prepositions --- Philosophy --- Auxiliaries --- Prepositional phrases --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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The volume Legal Pragmatics is a contribution to the interface between language and law. It looks at how the principles of language use can be beneficial to clarifying legal issues, its twelve chapters (together with the Introduction) offering a wide spectrum of the latest approaches to the area of legal pragmatics.

Semantics (Law) --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Law --- Language.