Petrified and Updated, or How the Interpretive Community Exercises Power Over the Meaning of Vague Terms in the Legal Text (on the Example of Polish Criminal Law)

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ID21593510
AuthorsAgnieszka Bielska-Brodziak (0000-0002-9926-6436, University of Silesia in Katowice), Marlena Drapalska-Grochowicz (0000-0002-8602-2918, University of Silesia in Katowice), Marek Suska (0000-0002-0950-5588, University of Silesia in Katowice, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume37
Issue7
Pages2193-2219
Publication date2024-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-8059 • E-ISSN: 1572-8722
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11196-024-10160-0
OpenAlexW4399029523
LanguageEN
References cited35

Interpretation of the law is based on a temporal perspective. The meaning of a legal text changes over time despite the fact that the wording does not change. A provision read in 2019 may be different from the same one read in 2023, even though its letter is the same. While the form is the same, the content may be different, cf. [ 43 ]: 433–436, [ 4 ]: 494–495

Applied linguistics · Comparative law · Criminal law · Epistemology · Legal research · Linguistics · Philosophy of law · Political science · Sociology · Comparative and International Law Studies · Law · Legal Language and Interpretation · Philosophy · Polish Law and Legal System

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