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Springer Law And Semiotics Volume 2 1989 Edition by Roberta Kevelson
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. Table of contents : to the Second Round Table on Law and Semiotics: Pragmatic Method and Some Consequences.- The Semiotics of Finnish Constitutional Law on Government Finance.- How Judges Fool Themselves: The Semiotics of the Easy Case.- What is a Hay Baler? The Semiotic Answer from Contract Law.- Drafting and Interpreting Legal Documents.- Metaphor and Adlinguisticity in the Literacy Language of Michel Foucault.- Mediation and Conflicts of Moralities.- Decoding the Code.- Modalities of Annunciation: An Introduction to Courtroom Speech.- Statutes in Common Law and Civil Law: Their Interpretation and.- The New Realism and Lawlessness in Kaleidoscope.- The Problem of Mother's Brother in "Oedipus": A Structural View of Sophocles's Theban Plays.- Law and the Importance of Feelings.- Rhetoric and Legitimation: An Analysis of Supreme Court Reversals.- "The Verdict": Dark Film Explores the Underside of the Law.- The Technologizing of the Law.- Sign of the Crimes: Medico-Legal Contexts of Detective Fiction.- Gender and Justice in Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers".- Eric Voegelin's Semiotics of History.- Legal Realism in a Cross-Cultural Context.- In Search of the Truly Fake: Aspects of Iconicity and Deceit.- "Everybody Pays - Even for Things They Didn't Do": The Justice of Vengeance in Richard Bachman's "Thinner".- The Deconstruction of the First Amendment: Philosophical Reflections on the Foundation of the City in Speech.- The Interpretation of Statutes in Hermeneutical Perspective: Can the Dangers of Scylia and Charybdis Be Avoided?.