Peirce, Paradox, Praxis: The Image, the Conflict, and the Law (Approaches to Semiotics)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Acknowledgements Preface Contents Part one: Presuppositions: The Map and the Legend Part two: Reclamation of the Indeterminate Ground Part three: Statements on 'Restatements': Conflicts and Agon in Legal Realism Part four: Powers of Legal Persons: Issues in Conflict of Laws Part five: Toward an 'Esthetics' of Praxis: Freedom as Peirce's Philosophical Gold Afterword: The Grin of the Cheshire Cat and the Triumph of Utterable Chaos Notes References Index By Roberta Kevelson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [382]-399) And Index.