(Mis)judging Ordinary Meaning?: Corpus Linguistics, the Frequency Fallacy, and the Extension-Abstraction Distinction in “Ordinary Meaning” Textualism
Rarely is a new yardstick of legal meaning created. But over the past decade, corpus linguistics has begun to be utilized as a new tool to measure ordinary meaning in statutory interpretation and original public meaning in constitutional interpretation. The legal application of corpus linguistics po...
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Language: | English |
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2019-12-01
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Series: | British Journal of American Legal Studies |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2019-0013 |