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Vagueness in Normative Texts
Vijay K. Bhatia
出版
Peter Lang
, 2005
主題
Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language
Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics
Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech & Pronunciation
Language Arts & Disciplines / Public Speaking & Speech Writing
Law / General
Law / International
Law / Jurisprudence
Law / Reference
Literary Criticism / General
ISBN
3039106538
9783039106530
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=T95O4ku8YQEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Normative texts are meant to be highly impersonal and decontextualised, yet at the same time they also deal with a range of human behaviour that is difficult to predict, which means they have to have a very high degree of determinacy on the one hand, and all-inclusiveness on the other. This poses a dilemma for the writer and interpreter of normative texts. The author of such texts must be determinate and vague at the same time, depending upon to what extent he or she can predict every conceivable contingency that may arise in the application of what he or she writes. The papers in this volume discuss important legal and linguistic aspects relating to the use of vagueness in legal drafting and demonstrate why such aspects are critical to our understanding of the way normative texts function.