| Title : | Contemporary Issues of the Semiotics of Law : cultural and symbolic analyses of law in global context | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Anne Wagner, Editor ; Tracey Summerfield, Editor | | Publisher: | Oxford : Hart Pub | | Publication Date: | 2005 | | Pagination: | x, 257 p. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-1-84113-546-5 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p.257-266)
Includes index (p.267-275) | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Law
Semiotics
| | Class number: | 340.14 | | Abstract: | The law is a symbolic construction and therefore rests on a variety of undertakings. What gives law its meaning is, for some, ideology, for others, the welfare of the majority. However, what is manifest is a conception of the law as a material structure that carries symbols of everyday life. The analysis that are made in the law and semiotics movements show that the laws symbolism cannot be understood by reference only to itself, a strictly legal meaning. It is a symbol that conveys life, a symbol that in itself is contaminated with life, politics, morality and so on. Law and Semiotics is an obvious meeting point between traditions, because it is the place where all the discussions about the law can find a common language. This is a collection of different papers where the institution of the law is investigated, in combination with, and as part of, a multiplicity of sign systems. Firstly, law can be understood as part of a global system of meaning (Part I); and, secondly, that despite the homogenizing threat of globalization, the play of legal meaning retains a socio-historical specificity (Part II). The global issues of human migration, human rights, colonization and transnational power are played out in local spaces, in the public discourses through which they are given localized representation, in moments of activism, and as a tool of subversion. The law is a rhetorical device which at once constitutes these global and local truths but which is also constituted by them. | | Contents note: | The interpretation and pertinence of law in the global age; Cultural and symbolic analyses of the law in context; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14344 |
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