Statutory interpretation [electronic resource] : pragmatics and argumentation / Douglas Walton, Fabrizio Macagno, Giovanni Sartor.

Statutory interpretation involves the reconstruction of the meaning of a legal statement when it cannot be considered as accepted or granted. This phenomenon needs to be considered not only from the legal and linguistic perspective, but also from the argumentative one - which focuses on the strategi...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Authors:	Walton, Douglas N. (Author), Macagno, Fabrizio (Author), Sartor, Giovanni (Author)
Other title:	Cambridge Core online.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Subjects:	Law > Interpretation and construction. Law > Language. Semantics (Law)