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Vagueness in Normative Texts

Vagueness in Normative Texts

Paperback

Series: Linguistic Insights, Book 23

English as a Second LanguagePublic Speaking & Speech WritingGeneral Law

ISBN10: 3039106538
ISBN13: 9783039106530
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Published: Apr 28 2005
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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