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Corpora and legal interpretation
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Corpora and legal interpretation book
Corpora and legal interpretation
DOI link for Corpora and legal interpretation
Corpora and legal interpretation book
ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews advantages and points of critique of corpus-linguistic approaches to legal meaning. After a brief review of the problems of intuition-based and dictionary-based approaches to ordinary meaning, the chapter defines the notion of a corpus and the main corpus-linguistic methods before it turns to discussing corpus-linguistic applications to a variety of well-known cases revolving around the meaning of lexical items in statutory texts. In addition, the chapter addresses some prejudices and points of critique leveled against corpus methods in legal interpretation.