Constitutional Semiotics

Author : Martin Belov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509931415

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Constitutional Semiotics by Martin Belov Pdf

This book offers an outline of the foundations of a theory of constitutional semiotics. It provides a systematic account of the concept of constitutional semiotics and its role in the representation and signification of meaning in constitution, constitutional law, and constitutionalism. The book explores the constitutional signification of meaning that is stretched between rational entrenchment and constitutional imagination. It provides a critical assessment of the rationalist entrapment of constitutional modernity and justifies the need to turn to 'shadow constitutionalisms': textual, symbolic-imaginary and visual constitutionalism. The book puts forward innovative incentives for constitutional analysis based on constitutional semiotics as a paradigm for representation of meaning in rational, textual, symbolic-imaginary and visual constitutionalism. The book focuses on the textual, imaginative, and visual discourse of constitutionalism, which is built upon collective constitutional imaginaries and on the peculiar normativity of constitutional geometry and constitutional mythology as borderline phenomena entrenched in rational, textual, symbolic-imaginary and visual constitutionalism. The book analyses concepts such as: constitutional text and texture, authoritative constitutional narratives and authoritative constitutional narrators, constitutional semiotic community, constitutional utopia, constitutional taboo, normative ideology and normative ideas, constitutional myth and mythology, constitutional symbolism, constitutional code and constitutional geometric form. It explores the textual entrenchment of constitutionalism and its repercussions for representation and signification of meaning.

Author : Anne Wagner,Sarah Marusek
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781802207262

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Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics by Anne Wagner,Sarah Marusek Pdf

This comprehensive Research Handbook explores the wide variety of work conducted in legal semiotics to provide a broad understanding of how the law works through signs and symbols. Demonstrating that law is a strategical system of fluctuating signs, contributors critically analyse the ever-evolving conceptualisations of law and legal discourse.

Author : James Anthony Whitson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : 1850003327

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Constitution and Curriculum by James Anthony Whitson Pdf

Discusses the ramifications of the policy of managing the influences to which students are exposed in the school environment. The author examines this in the context of freedom of speech as protected by the First Amendment and cites specific precedents as set by the Supreme Court.

Author : Marcelo Neves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192671370

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Symbolic Constitutionalization by Marcelo Neves Pdf

The subject of this book is the social and political meaning of constitutional texts to the detriment of their legal concretization. Focusing on the discrepancy between the hypertrophically symbolic function of constitutions and their insufficient legal concretization, it offers a critical counterpoint to constitutional theory that treats constitutional texts as a panacea to solving political, legal, and social problems. In contrast to the premises of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory regarding law and constitution in world's society, symbolic constitutionalization is approached here in both a comprehensive and far-reaching perspective. Chapter 1 sets out the debate about symbolic legislation. Chapter 2 explains the notion of symbolic constitutionalization as a problem embracing the whole legal system. Chapter 3 approaches the issue in terms of allopoiesis of law, characterizing it primarily as a problem in peripheral modernity and referring to the Brazilian experience. The final chapter discusses the tendency to a symbolic constitutionalization of world society in the scope of a paradoxical peripheralization of the centre.

Author : Roberta Kevelson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781461307716

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Law and Semiotics by Roberta Kevelson Pdf

of those problems in law which we inherit and/or retrieve in order to reconstruct and interpret in the light of legal semiotics, however defined. In addition to three main areas of underlying metaphysical assumptions there are also three main areas of possible editorial focus and these should be mentioned. The three areas of focus are: 1) the state-of-the-art of legal semiotics; 2) the dynamic, intense and exceptionally interactive quality of conference participation, and 3) the content of the papers presented which is the material of this volume. My choice of this triad of focal possibilities is to exclude the last since the papers speak for themselves and need but a brief reportorial caption. I also eliminate the second possible focus as the main focus since the discussion was not taped for editing into this volume and must remain for all those who participated a quality of scholarly meetings to be remembered, savored and hoped for. My main focus is on the "state-of-the-art" of legal semiotics. II At the conclusion of the First Round Table on Law and Semiotics (1987) it was noted that there were no working paradigms, in Kuhn's sense, that thus far emerged but rather that several problematic areas were disclosed which warrant attention. Therefore the first concern of Legal Semiotics should be to address the surface, i. e.

Author : Semiotic Society of America. Meeting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Semiotics
ISBN : UOM:39015066371488

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Semiotics by Semiotic Society of America. Meeting Pdf

Author : Norma Presmeg,Luis Radford,Wolff-Michael Roth,Gert Kadunz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319702872

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Signs of Signification by Norma Presmeg,Luis Radford,Wolff-Michael Roth,Gert Kadunz Pdf

This book discusses a significant area of mathematics education research in the last two decades and presents the types of semiotic theories that are employed in mathematics education. Following on the summary of significant issues presented in the Topical Survey, Semiotics in Mathematics Education, this book not only introduces readers to semiotics as the science of signs, but it also elaborates on issues that were highlighted in the Topical Survey. In addition to an introduction and a closing chapter, it presents 17 chapters based on presentations from Topic Study Group 54 at the ICME-13 (13th International Congress on Mathematical Education). The chapters are divided into four major sections, each of which has a distinct focus. After a brief introduction, each section starts with a chapter or chapters of a theoretical nature, followed by others that highlight the significance and usefulness of the relevant theory in empirical research.

Author : Crystal L. Downing
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830866854

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Changing Signs of Truth by Crystal L. Downing Pdf

Crystal Downing brings the postmodern theory of semiotics within reach for today's evangelists. Following the idea of the sign through Scripture, church history and the academy, Downing shows you how signs work and how sensitivity to their dynamics can make or break an attempt to communicate truth.

Author : Hanneke van Schooten
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060396764

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Semiotics and Legislation by Hanneke van Schooten Pdf

Developed from a one-day symposium at the University of Tilburg, this collection of papers explores the semiotic foundations of legislation as viewed from jurisprudential, institutional and sociological perspectives. They pose such questions as: the audience of legislation; the relations between legislative and judicial discourse; the contributions of speech act theory; the effectiveness of legislation and its meaning in non-legal discourse; and the creation of a supra-national form of constitutional discourse, that of Europe.

Author : Peter J. McCormick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442606395

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The End of the Charter Revolution by Peter J. McCormick Pdf

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms became an entrenched part of the Canadian Constitution on April 17, 1982. The Charter represented a significant change in Canadian constitutional order and carried the courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, decisively into some of the biggest controversies in Canadian politics. Although the impact of the Charter on Canadian law and society was profound, a new status quo has been established. Even though there will be future Charter surprises and decisions that will claim news headlines, Peter J. McCormick argues that these cases will be occasional rather than frequent, and that the Charter "revolution" is over. Or, as he puts it in his introduction, "I will tell a story about the Charter, about the big ripples that have gradually but steadily died away such that the surface of the pond is now almost smooth." The End of the Charter Revolution explores the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, beginning with a general historical background, followed by a survey of the significant changes brought about as Charter decisions were made. The book addresses a series of specific cases made before the Dickson, Lamer, and McLachlin Courts, and then provides empirical data to support the argument that the Charter revolution has ended. The Supreme Court has without question become "a national institution of the first order," but even though the Charter is a large part of why this has happened, it is not Charter decisions that will showcase the exercise of this power in the future.

Author : William F. Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Constitutional amendments
ISBN : UOM:39015029871798

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The Interpretable Constitution by William F. Harris Pdf

"In The Interpretable Constitution William F. Harris II examines three feature of American constitutionalism that are usually taken for granted: the Constitution's authoritativeness, its written character, and its consequent readability. Drawing on recent work in literary as well as constitutional theory, Harris aims to change the very contour and character of debate on constitutional meaning." "A central insight of Harris's work is his view of American politics as consisting of two "texts" - the familiar Constitution itself and the working polity that it signifies. Embracing both of these "texts," Harris offers a rigorous methodology for interpreting each in light of the other. He also attempts to offer a middle ground between the two extremes of strict constructionism, on the one hand, and historicism (the notion that each generation interprets the Constitution anew), on the other. In the process, he describes the ways in which the written Constitution and the working polity mutually limit and transform each other." ""The central idea," Harris writes in his introduction, "is that the systematic interpretability of the Constitution is essential to its bindingness as law. The converse is that ad hoc interpretations or the random taking up of convenient interpretive techniques fundamentally undermines the constitutional order.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Thomas Albert Sebeok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Semiotics
ISBN : 3110105594

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Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics by Thomas Albert Sebeok Pdf

Author : Anne Wagner,Tracey Summerfield,Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847312068

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Contemporary Issues of the Semiotics of Law by Anne Wagner,Tracey Summerfield,Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas Pdf

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 analyses 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 homogenising threat of globalisation, the play of legal meaning retains a socio-historical specificity (Part II). The global issues of human migration, human rights, colonisation and transnational power are played out in local spaces, in the public discourses through which they are given localised 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.

Author : Roberta Kevelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461307724

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Law and Semiotics by Roberta Kevelson Pdf

Author : Eduardo C.B. Bittar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030588809

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Semiotics, Law & Art by Eduardo C.B. Bittar Pdf

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the relation between semiotics, law & art. Focusing on Greimasian semiotics, it examines specific works of art (from Giotto to Banksy) that deal with the theme of justice, promoting a more sensitive and humanized perception of the values that surround law. The book offers readers a comprehensive review of the semiotics of law, critically examining the relation between law & art. It covers a variety of topics, including semiotics, law and art; semiotics, art and experience; and society, law and art, as well as semiotics, law and painting; semiotics, law and architecture; semiotics, law and theatre; semiotics, law and literature; and semiotics, law and culture. In doing so, it uses the semiotics of painting to explain the symbology of justice and its significance in history; the semiotics of architecture to explain the setting of justice; the semiotics of theatre to explain the logic of the legal process; and the semiotics of literature to explain the narrative logic of legal decisions. Lastly, drawing on the semiotics of culture, it discusses ways of promoting justice, citizenship and human rights. Written from both philosophical and semiotical perspectives, the book enhances the centrality of visual jurisprudence studies to promote a better understanding of the role of law.