Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl Journal of the Polish Section of IVR (ISSN:2082-3304) Wed, 22 Aug 2018 23:17:32 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The strategic principle and the maxim of selectivity – a new insight on Gricean implicatures in the law https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/818/the-strategic-principle-and-the-maxim-of-selectivity-a-new-insight-on-gricean-implicatures-in-the-law/ https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/818/the-strategic-principle-and-the-maxim-of-selectivity-a-new-insight-on-gricean-implicatures-in-the-law/#respond Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:31:49 +0000 http://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/?p=818 Mgr Izabela Skoczeń

Jagiellonian University


English abstract In the present paper, I attempt to answer three questions. First, whether the classical Gricean version of the implicature theory can be applied to describe legal discourse. Second, I provide an outline of one of the most popular theories of the pragmatics of legal language. Namely, Andrei Marmor’s theory of strategic speech. Strategic speech occurs mostly in indeterminate contexts, which contain elements that license even contradictory pragmatic inferences. Next, I attempt to flesh out the problematic points of this account. Third, I attempt to formulate a descriptive model of the strategic selectivity of pragmatic elements in the law, that could face the objections to Marmor’s ideas.

Keywords: conversational implicature, Paul Grice, pragmatics, interpretation, strategic speech

Language: Polish

Received: 06.10.2016
Accepted: 10.12.2016

Published: Number 1(14)/2017, pp. 115-124.

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