What Can You Say, Words It Is, Nothing Else Going

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 26 (4):805-832 (2013)
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This essay examines the capacity of language (‘word’) to convey what there is (‘world’). It draws on philosophical thought, which it seeks to apply to law while making specific reference to comparative legal studies, that is, to the investigation of law that is foreign to its interpreter

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