Deborah Cao

Chinese Law (eBook, PDF)

A Language Perspective

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Studying Chinese law from a linguistic and communicative perspective, this book examines meaning and language in Chinese law. It investigates key notions and concepts of law, the rule of law, and rights and their evolutionary meanings. It examines the linguistic usage and textual features in Chinese legal texts and legal translation, and probes the lawmaking process and the Constitution as speech act and communicative action. Taking a cross-cultural approach, the book applies major Western philosophical thought to Chinese law, in particular the ideas concerning language and communication by such major thinkers as Peirce, Whorf, Gadamer, Habermas, Austin and Searle. The focus of the study is contemporary People's Republic of China; however, the study also traces and links the inherited and introduced cultural and linguistic values and configurations that provide the context in which modern Chinese law operates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351951982
• Artikelnr.: 47956154

Autorenporträt

Deborah Cao is Senior Lecturer at the School of Languages and Linguistics, and also at the Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
What the Chinese said about law
Fazhi as rule of/by law
'Ought to' as a legal performative
Rights talk in Chinese
Chinese law and imprecise language
Doing things with words in the constitution
Chinese lawmaking as a communicative act
Translating law over space and time
Last words
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.