Abstract
Legal semiotics has its problems with semiotics in general in so far as law is in many regards and very much despite the urgent need to change this feature, a static discourse. It is only since Russian structural linguistics, Greimas and Kristeva, that this need to further a dynamic semiotics is registered. That urge is described in the 4th editorial and brought in relation with Greimas notion of different layers characterizing a text. The dynamic approach to semiotics as exposed in Julia Kristevas essay The Engenderment of the Formula�, from which key fragments are translated in the final chapter of this book for the first time, is introduced to understand the surface character of texts as produced by deep layers. In the case of law and legal discourse, this need for dynamics is a fascinating project. It focuses on the specific textual structure of laws discourse and its institutionally controlled surface. This type of dynamic semiotics has wide-ranging consequences in Court practices as well in legal scholarship.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Signs in Law - A Source Book |
| Subtitle of host publication | The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education III |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Pages | 125-127 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319098371 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319098364 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2015 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Social Sciences
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Psychology