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A Linguist Goes to Law School: January 2010
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A Linguist Goes to Law School. Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The SCAT hypothesis of meaning and the textualist fallacy. The SCAT hypothesis of meaning holds that the components of meaning are Structure, Context, And Text, not necessarily in that order. I name this hypothesis and make it explicit because it is common to suppose, to the contrary, that meaning is determined only by text. This erroneous supposition I call the "textualist fallacy.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Lawrence Solum's Legal Theory Blog.
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SFALingBlog: April 2012
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Written Language and Brain Processing. A colleague shared the following article that appeared on Science Daily. With me: " Brain's Involvement in Processing Depends on Language's Graphic Symbols. The article ends with this thought:. Thus, the question is again raised as to whether in the modern world those who speak certain languages have an advantage over those who speak other languages. Posted by Jessie Sams. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). International Dialects...
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SFALingBlog: January 2012
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Sunday, January 15, 2012. If you check out our Ling Minor page, you'll notice there are a few changes. We submitted this modified minor in August to the university. It is still awaiting state approval, but we wanted to update the blog to share with you our vision for an updated program. If all goes well, the modified minor will be effective Fall 2012. Posted by Jessie Sams. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Uarr; Grab this Headline Animator. Enter your email address:. The Society for the Pr...
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Plagiarism: The Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V boom - BBC News
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Also in the News. Plagiarism: The Ctrl C, Ctrl V boom. Share this with Email. Share this with Facebook. Share this with Twitter. Share this with Pinterest. Share this with WhatsApp. Share this with Linkedin. Http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12613617. Read more about sharing. Many students cross the line under pressure. It's been a bad week for honest educational endeavour. And the LSE is looking into allegations that Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam plagiarised his PhD thesis. Google gave students ...
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A Linguist Goes to Law School: August 2008
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A Linguist Goes to Law School. Saturday, August 30, 2008. I'm still hoping to post here, but it will probably not be too frequently. Saturday, August 16, 2008. A paper I wish I'd written. Shai Cohen brought this. If I may brag, in my grad school days I wrote a paper in which I argued that the domain of events is, like the domain of entities is sometimes taken to be, divided along an individual/group axis as well as a singular/plural axis, with the upshot that sentences like Adin hit three boys five times.
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A Linguist Goes to Law School: Here's a desperately needed canon of construction
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A Linguist Goes to Law School. Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Here's a desperately needed canon of construction. The Choose Life Canon: If a statute is ambiguous, and interpreting it one way will save many more people's lives than interpreting it the other way, interpret it so it saves more people's lives. For an illustration, see FDA v. Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. Maybe if the majority had accepted the Choose Life Canon, hundreds of thousands of lives might have been saved. There is also a division of...
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A Linguist Goes to Law School: January 2009
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A Linguist Goes to Law School. Saturday, January 17, 2009. Summary of my second amendment paper. I've made some promises to some people about trying to summarize my paper about the linguistics of the second amendment. Here is my attempt. The full paper is available here. The website makes you wait 90 seconds before downloading, since I signed up for a free membership; the delay is their way of motivating people to get paid memberships). Discussed previously on this blog here. Both Stevens and Scalia appe...
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A Linguist Goes to Law School: October 2008
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A Linguist Goes to Law School. Sunday, October 5, 2008. Not law-related but diplomacy-related. Reuters reports. That France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, speaking in English, caused a bit of a row when he was understood to say to an Israeli interviewer, "I honestly don't believe that it will give any immunity to Iran . because you will eat them before.". Saying France calls for Iran to be wiped off the map. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). BLS Center for Law, Language and Cognition. Uri's other, more e...
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A Linguist Goes to Law School: The textualist fallacy: trying to impute meaning to "of"
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A Linguist Goes to Law School. Monday, December 21, 2009. The textualist fallacy: trying to impute meaning to "of". An example of the textualist fallacy in legal scholarship. Recall that the SCAT hypothesis holds that the components of meaning of a legal text (and all other texts, really) are structure, context and text, while the textualist fallacy happens when one assumes that meaning comes only from text. Since today is oral argument day in McDonald v. Chicago. The defendant in that case was the feder...
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A Linguist Goes to Law School: December 2009
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A Linguist Goes to Law School. Monday, December 21, 2009. The textualist fallacy: trying to impute meaning to "of". An example of the textualist fallacy in legal scholarship. Recall that the SCAT hypothesis holds that the components of meaning of a legal text (and all other texts, really) are structure, context and text, while the textualist fallacy happens when one assumes that meaning comes only from text. Since today is oral argument day in McDonald v. Chicago. The defendant in that case was the feder...