Contents: 1. Rethinking Speech 2. Hobbes’ Frontispiece 3. Von Savigny’s ‘People’ 4. Signs Signify 5. Structuralism And Law 6. Alter’s Presence 7. What Language, What Law? 8. Word, Seme, Digit 9. The Flagship’s Wreckage References Index
Jan M. Broekman, Dean and Professor of Law Emeritus, Law Faculty, KU Leuven, Belgium and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Penn State Law, PSU, US
'Ties between law and language have always been of interest in
socially problematic situations as well as in legal and speech
events in everyday life. Rethinking them brings us to Thomas
Hobbes' Leviathan and later developments in Central European
jurisprudence, to Marxian considerations, structuralism and sign
theories. Unique in this book is the author's focus on problems
with the two faces of language: the analog and the digital, on the
basis of which our smart phones and Artificial Intelligence create
modern life. How does law answer that challenge and is developing
cyberlaw enough? Such questions remain unanswered as long as we do
not focus on our personal responsibility for the event we call
''speech'' - the name of the flagship language - no matter whether
we speak, Tweet or write on Facebook.'
--Frank Fleerackers, KU Leuven, Belgium'A central thesis of this
book is its recognition of the double definition of the term
''word'', which has also been neglected in studies of law and
language relations. A ''word'' exists in analog and digital types
of language, whereas conversions among those types seem to
catastrophically diminish the appreciation and effects of a renewed
appeal to personal responsibility inherent to speech. Any
philosophy of the language-law relationship, the book suggests,
should establish ''digit studies'': a branch that studies the
digital media structures and its effects on languages around the
globe.'
--Anne Wagner, Lille University, France'I am struck by the way in
which the book very convincingly weaves the idea of ''legal
consciousness'' into the larger framework of legal semiotics,
making the former inescapably an essential element of the latter.
By all rights: that should serve as the headwater of a broad flow
of discourse on the nature of law and language. Let's hope that
this endeavour finds a good number of intelligent readers who are
moved to respond.'
--Philip T. Grier, Dickinson College, US
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