Diversity and tolerance in socio-legal contexts
Subtitle: explorations in the semiotics of law
By: by Anne Wagner and Vijay K. Bhatia.
Contributors: Bhatia, V. K. 1942-
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780754673866
Subjects: Semiotics (Law); Law -- Language; Law -- Philosophy; Semantics (Law); Toleration; Cultural pluralism; Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tolerance, pluralism, and fighting faiths : seeking the sources of U.S. Constitutional meaning / Frederick Lewis; title: When the law speaks : acts of intolerance, threats to group-identity, and confidence in law and rights / Ira L. Strauber; title: Mediated semiosis in the courtroom / Isabell Petrinic; title: The Roma way / István H. Szilágyi; title: Une certaine idée de l'homme, une certaine idée de la France : the rhetorical construction of tolerance in French political discourse / Pamela Hobbs; title: Shifts in the concept of war : new war terminology and its legal consequences / Hanneke van Schooten; title: Case analyses of diversity and tolerance / Branding Barcelona; title: Semiotic considerations in contemporary sovereignty / John Brigham; title: Legality beyond the scope of policy / Sarah Marusek; title: On sight / On site : visuality in native title claims : can we even speak? / Tracey summerfield and Alec McHoul; title: Race, class, and the Supreme Court : Rodriguez v. San Antonio school independent school district / William Pencak; title: Legal terms across communities : divergence behind convergence in law / Le Cheng, King Kui Sin; title: Women as legal subjects and objects in contemporary China / Deborah Cao.