Environmental Law: Lexical Semantics in the Quest for Conceptual Foundations
(2023) Representations and Rights of the Environment — ISBN: [9781108769327], p. 206-230, published
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- This paper describes a brief study that adopts a pragmatic approach to the examination of concepts by studying language and terminology as the linguistic expression of and reliable indicators for underlying conceptual thinking. Language is essentially an act of communication and reflects the way (legal) meanings are constructed, encoded and decoded. This feeds into a continuous interaction between the way laws create meaning in language and how language creates realities in law. The chapter has sketched out an approach and methodology that can contribute to the consolidation of a conceptual foundation for environmental policy, law and governance. The analysis of language and discourse provides in-depth and empirical knowledge beyond content analysis from the specific angle of observing the shifts in the semantic fields of the language and terminology. As mentioned, this is only a brief examination of a research question that could potentially cover vast amounts of texts and data.
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Laske, C. (2023). Environmental Law: Lexical Semantics in the Quest for Conceptual Foundations. In P. Stoett, S. Lamalle (ed.), Representations and Rights of the Environment (p. p. 206-230). Cambridge University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/219425