Strategic maneuvoeuvring with linguistic arguments in legal decisions: a disputable literal reading of the law
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| Publication date | 2012 |
| Journal | International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse |
| Volume | Issue number | 2 | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 106-125 |
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| Abstract | In this contribution, pragma-dialectical theory and its complement, strategic manoeuvring theory, two theories of the Amsterdam school of argumentation, are used to explain the linguistic argument, that is to say statutory interpretation under the literal rule, and how this argument can fail. |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | http://www.ijlld.com/2012-index/92-ijlld-21-2012 |
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