ABSTRACT
The analyses presented in Chapters 3, 4, and 5 of this monograph offer an empirical account operating on two interrelated levels. The first level concerns the disciplinary matrix, understood as the set of broadly accepted theories, symbolic generalizations, and coherent views concerning the construction of the world or the sharing of common cognitive values. The second level comprises conceptual structures, research patterns, and specific solutions to particular linguistic or legal problems that shape a precise understanding of international legal communication. The results of the analyses presented here should be approached as an integrated whole that constitutes the object of scholarly inquiry into international legal communication and has been delineated through its actual – paradigmatic – use. In this manner, international legal communication is presented as a phenomenon made accessible through its own epistemic conditions, illustrated by concrete and meaningful examples. The identified patterns and models enable the reconstruction of practices and cognitive frameworks operative in the field of international legal communication.
