Textual representation as a conceptual tool: Big data analysis of legal language
(2024) Between Text, Meaning and Legal Languages. Linguistic Approaches to Legal Interpretation — ISBN: [978-3-11-079960-6], p. 117-142, published
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- This paper argues for a sociolinguistic approach to legal linguistics, which contributes insights into the law that have hitherto been under-explored, in particular, in legal scholarship. Law as a tool of social governance is conditioned by the society’s perceptions of its identity, including the hegemony of its structures, its moral, social, geo-political and cultural constructs and its economic needs. This aspect of social governance is linguistically fixed through legal language, which is performative, on the one hand, but also conveys social meaning, sociolinguistic content and aspects of the society’s identity, on the other. That aspect of legal language has had less attention in legal research.
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Laske, C. (2024). Textual representation as a conceptual tool: Big data analysis of legal language. In Jan Engberg (ed.), Between Text, Meaning and Legal Languages. Linguistic Approaches to Legal Interpretation (p. p. 117-142). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799651-001