Linda Nurra
Biographic Data
| ID | 5978967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Nurra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Nurra |
| SIGNATURE | NURRA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Independent Scholar, Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Crimes of the sign
This paper explores some key topics in the semiotics of law − and the paradoxes related to legality, legitimacy, and interpretation − through a chapter in the history of British radicalism that unfolds around the Treason Trials of 1794. These trials, I argue, staged a wholesale battle around the very nature of the sign. The peculiarities of British treason law and the prosecution’s “constructive” readings made treason wholly into a crime of the s…
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Crimes of the sign
This paper explores some key topics in the semiotics of law − and the paradoxes related to legality, legitimacy, and interpretation − through a chapter in the history of British radicalism that unfolds around the Treason Trials of 1794. These trials, I argue, staged a wholesale battle around the very nature of the sign. The peculiarities of British treason law and the prosecution’s “constructive” readings made treason wholly into a crime of the s…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Framing (construction) (1 work) · History (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Law in Society and Culture (1 work) · Legitimacy (1 work) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (1 work) · Performative utterance (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Political science (1 work)