ABSTRACT
As discussed in the previous chapter, the concepts of legal discourse, proposed by legal theory and related disciplines, are diverse, and their application to studies on legal interpretation in international commercial arbitration (ICA) can be performed on different levels. The notion of legal discourse, as well as the consequences of its adoption for the theory of legal interpretation, have also been an object of interest of yet another discipline – legal semiotics. Developed as a separate field since the 1970s, the semiotics of law aims at capturing legal discourse in its semantic, structural and functional dimensions, combining the methods of philosophy of language and linguistics with those of social and legal studies. It has been advanced as one of the subfields of the general semiotics, or the general systematic study of signs and sign processes.1
