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Showing posts with label Pragmatics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pragmatics. Show all posts
Sunday, December 6, 2020

My Common Thread

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Though the subject matters of my writing may seem quite diverse, there is a common thread. What is it? That common thread is a hermeneutic p...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Voltaire and the Semiotics of Dress

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For those who doubt that there is a semiotics of dress, here is Voltaire wigged and wigless. Many thanks to the National Gallery of Art in W...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (2/7/18)

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2/7/18 A legislative bill or other proposal isn’t simply a string of words on a page. Instead, a legislative bill or other proposal involve...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (1/30/18)

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Legislative Intent 1/30/18  Legislative “intent” lies in legislatures’ speech acts and not legislators’ speech acts.  That is, legisl...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (1/21/18)

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Speaker Meaning 1/21/18 “Original” speaker meaning includes the unexplored.  Imagine I buy a netted device I categorize as “my hammock...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Speaker Meaning and the Interpretation and Construction of Executive Orders

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Here is an abstract of my latest article posted on SSRN : ABSTRACT: This Article explores the interpretation and construction of execu...
Monday, July 10, 2017

President Trump & Word Association

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As a lover of words, I am of course interested in the following Quinnipiac poll which asked responders "What is the first word that co...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Gorsuch and Originalism: Some Critiques from Logic, Scripture, and Art

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(This blog combines, expands, and end-notes two prior blogs)
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Daniel: Nighttime Hieroglyphics in the Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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        Daniel’s Sonnet    (A Jew “exiled” in Babylon) Through deepest faith, I tapped night's lexicon That Nimrod changed. ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

How the "Ten" Commandments Refute Originalism & Fundamentalism (With Some Help From Herod, Caiaphas & Ahab's Additions to "The Apology Box")

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Conservatives often like to claim that texts speak for themselves.  A review of the Ten  Commandments is an easy way to see how such claim...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Justice Scalia, Queen Anne, and the Pragmatics of Interpretation

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Archive of Blog Originally Posted 2/18/2016 in The Huffinton Post