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Book SynopsisLanguages of the Law: Vocabularies and Uses. Introduction.- Part I. Legal Language, Signs & Speech Acts.- Language of the Law as a Sign and as a Symbol.- Listing Acts of Legal Communication: An Extension of the Concept of Legal Language.- On Pineapple Wine: Compound Terms and the Ordinary Language(s) of the Law .- Street Naming, Speech Acts and the Law.- Part II. Conceptualisation of Law via Language.- Law and (Conceptual) Revolution.- The Normativity of Law and Normative Vocabularies in Law: The Inferentialist Explanatory Route.- What Can Content-Force Distinction Teach Us About Law?.- Union is strength. Textual agency of constitutions in the integration of democratic communities.- Part III. Legal Reasoning.- Application and Applicability of the Law in Relation to its Validity.- The Application of Juristic Concepts in Legal Reasoning.- Stranger than legal fictions - the argument of analogy.- , Legal practice as a part of the Court of Justice of the European Union's vocabulary.
