{"id":5984,"date":"2023-05-08T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T03:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2023-05-08T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T03:24:22","slug":"watson-on-metalinguistic-negotiation-in-legal-speech-harvard_law-bwatson_theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/08\/watson-on-metalinguistic-negotiation-in-legal-speech-harvard_law-bwatson_theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson on Metalinguistic Negotiation in Legal Speech @Harvard_Law @BWatson_theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Watson, Harvard Law School, is publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4396498&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_jurisprudence%3Alegal%3Aphilosophy%3Aejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metalinguistic Negotiation in Legal Speech<\/a> in Law &amp; Philosophy. Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This paper examines the role of metalinguistic negotiation in lawyers\u2019 and judges\u2019 speech about the law. A speaker engages in metalinguistic negotiation when the speaker uses a term to advocate for what that term should mean or how it should be used relative to context. While I doubt that legal practitioners employ metalinguistic negotiation in the ways that David Plunkett and Tim Sundell have proposed, it is plausible that practitioners do so in another way. Specifically, I contend that lawyers and judges sometimes use key terms in legal interpretation \u2013 e.g., \u2018plain\u2019, \u2018meaning\u2019, or \u2018holding\u2019 \u2013 to advocate for what those terms should mean or how courts should use them in adjudication. This suggests an intriguing role for metalinguistic negotiation in legal argumentation, one that could shed light on practitioners\u2019 disputes in a range of cases dealing with constitutional, statutory, or common-law interpretation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Watson, Harvard Law School, is publishing Metalinguistic Negotiation in Legal Speech in Law &amp; Philosophy. Here is the abstract. This paper examines the role of metalinguistic negotiation in lawyers\u2019 and judges\u2019 speech about&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[701],"class_list":["post-5984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-linguistics","tag-law-and-linguistics"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1yw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}