ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the use of the narrative approach thus has at least three meanings: as a method for analysing legal cases and reconstructing facts in context, i.e. in legal disputes and in cultural contexts. It also include: as a method to educate lawyers – to understand the narratives of their clients and their own narratives, both in dialogue with their clients and in the presentation of cases – and as a device to include voices that are silenced or marginalised in the legal discourse. The book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the nexus between mind, culture and language, highlighting fundamental characteristics of narrative to be translated within the legal discourse. It explores theoretical and methodological premises that guide case analysis and fact investigation, situating the discourse in a context of Civil Law and in particular in that of the Italian legal order.
