RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON
LEGAL SEMIOTICS
Anne WAGNER
& Sarah MARUSEK (Eds)
Edward Elgar
Publishing
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PART I LEGAL
SEMIOTICS AS AN ARENA FOR LEGAL THOUGHTS
1 Understanding
legal semiotics 11
Paolo Heritier
2 From analytical
philosophy of law to legal semiotics 32
Marek
Zirk-Sadowski
3 Legal philosophy
and the promise(s) of legal semiotics 47
José Manuel Aroso
Linhares
4 Legal semiotics,
globalization, and governance 61
Larry Catá Backer
5 Legal semiotics
and synaesthesia 86
Rostam J. Neuwirth
6 Constitutional
semiotics as a post-positivist and post-modern approach to constitution and
constitutionalism based on the linguistic, visual and emotional turns 105
Martin Belov
7 Semiotics and the
space-time ingredients of legal experience 120
Mario Ricca
8 Narrative
identity and human beings’ legal subjectivity 135
Bartosz
Wojciechowski
9 Classical
rhetoric, legal argumentation and the semiotics of law 146
Miklós Könczöl
10 Legal semiotics
and Chinese philosophy 158
Magdalena Łągiewska
PART II CULTURE-BOUND LEGAL SEMIOTICS, THE BACKBONE OF THE LAW
11 Law and religion
in the United States and Japan: a comparative semiotic perspective 171
Frank S. Ravitch
12 The view:
propertizing the visibility of distance 184
Sarah Marusek and
Anne Wagner
13 Semiotic
insecurity and fake news law 193
Ahmad Pakatchi
14 Beware of (bad
and dangerous) metaphors: remarks made at the intersection of cognitive
linguistics and law 209
Angela Condello
15 Semiotics of
international law 220
Michael Salter
16 Introducing
forensic semiotics in criminal investigations 237
Marcel Danesi
17 Legal semiotics
and types of arguments in human rights cases in Russia 254
Anita Soboleva
18 Semiotics and
cultural heritage law 267
Kamil Zeidler
19 Semiotics of
trademark law and brand intellectual property 278
Kristian Bankov
20 Legal semiotics,
culture and femi(ni)cide 289
Farid Samir
Benavides Vanegas
21 Sex trafficking
of girl children: a legal semiotics study of the Convention on the Rights of
the Child 300
Clara
Chapdelaine-Feliciati
22 Coloniality,
international human rights and legal semiotics from the margins 313
Elisabeth Roy
Trudel and Amy Swiffen
PART III VISUAL LEGAL SEMIOTICS AS A FIGURATIVE SIGN-SYSTEM
23 Imaginal law 327
Peter Goodrich
24 The two-sided
E-Agora 2.0: demojicracy and demonjicracy 338
Anne Wagner, Wei Yu, and Sarah Marusek
25 Photography,
art, crime and law 353
Anita Lam
26 Image and the
law – a Peircean approach to Mask Required posters during the COVID-19 pandemic 366
Nathalie
Hauksson-Tresch
27 Cars and hate:
legal semiotics of automobility and combustion masculinity 376
Kieran Tranter and
Sarah Marusek
28 Legal semiotics,
signs of colonization, signs of independence in India 394
Parineet Kaur
29 Comics and the
law: jurisprudence with a comic face 404
Guilherme
Vasconcelos Vilaça and Mark Thomas
30 Legal and social
semiotics of environmental challenges 419
Dariusz J.
Gwiazdowicz and Aleksandra Matulewska
31 Semiotic
(de)construction of judges’ identities in China’s internet courts 433
Youping Xu
32 Legal
scenographies and courts: tensions between past and present 447
Patrícia Branco
33 Law, music and
semiotics 460
Robbie Sykes and
Julia J.A. Shaw
Index 479
