Sol Azuelos-Atias
Biographic Data
| ID | 5979461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sol Azuelos-Atias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sol |
| FAMILY NAME | Azuelos-Atias |
| SIGNATURE | AZUELOS-ATIAS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7140-7479 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Identifying the meanings hidden in legal texts
I present a tool of interpretation that can be applied to legal texts. The tool is intended for people who wish to make sure that they thoroughly understand a certain text – including the meanings hidden between its lines in general, and in particular for legal laypersons who wish to make sure that they thoroughly understand a legal text. I have developed this tool of interpretation from the relevance-theoretic communicative principle of relevanc…
Manipulation by deliberate failure of communication
This work studies manipulative use of language that can be called “deliberate failure of communication”; I characterize this kind of manipulation and show that it can be found in the discourse of marketing experts and legal professionals. Relying on relevance theory, I show that manipulation of this kind takes advantage of what van Dijk calls the “context model” of the addressees. I exemplify two ways in which the context models of some of the di…
Semantically cued contextual implicatures in legal texts
The rationality of legal argumentation
According to Dascal (1998), controversy is characterised by a special kind of rationality, one result thereof being the unique contribution of this kind of polemics to the growth of knowledge. This, in turn, implies that complete cooperation may be detrimental for the efficiency of communication. In this article I discuss the kind of rationality that characterises controversy in legal discourse, in order to provide additional support to Dascal’s …
A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Soceity and Culture)
A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent is a detailed investigation of proofs of criminal intent in Israeli courtrooms. The book analyses linguistic, pragmatic, interpretative and argumentative strategies used by Israeli lawyers and judges in order to examine the defendant’s intention. There can be no doubt that this subject is worthy of a thorough investigation. A person’s intention is a psychological phenomenon and therefore, un…
A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Soceity and Culture)
A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent is a detailed investigation of proofs of criminal intent in Israeli courtrooms. The book analyses linguistic, pragmatic, interpretative and argumentative strategies used by Israeli lawyers and judges in order to examine the defendant’s intention. There can be no doubt that this subject is worthy of a thorough investigation. A person’s intention is a psychological phenomenon and therefore, un…
The rationality of legal argumentation
According to Dascal (1998), controversy is characterised by a special kind of rationality, one result thereof being the unique contribution of this kind of polemics to the growth of knowledge. This, in turn, implies that complete cooperation may be detrimental for the efficiency of communication. In this article I discuss the kind of rationality that characterises controversy in legal discourse, in order to provide additional support to Dascal’s …
Semantically cued contextual implicatures in legal texts
Manipulation by deliberate failure of communication
This work studies manipulative use of language that can be called “deliberate failure of communication”; I characterize this kind of manipulation and show that it can be found in the discourse of marketing experts and legal professionals. Relying on relevance theory, I show that manipulation of this kind takes advantage of what van Dijk calls the “context model” of the addressees. I exemplify two ways in which the context models of some of the di…
Identifying the meanings hidden in legal texts
I present a tool of interpretation that can be applied to legal texts. The tool is intended for people who wish to make sure that they thoroughly understand a certain text – including the meanings hidden between its lines in general, and in particular for legal laypersons who wish to make sure that they thoroughly understand a legal text. I have developed this tool of interpretation from the relevance-theoretic communicative principle of relevanc…
Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Legal Language and Interpretation (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Argumentation theory (2 works) · Argumentative (2 works)