Regarding intentio operis in the texts of legal acts
The aim of the paper is to present intentio operis as an interpretative strategy created by a text. According to Umberto Eco, this strategy can help to transcend the opposition between intentio auctoris and the interpreter’s unrestrained freedom. Although as a concept intentio operis belongs to lit...
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| Language: | English |
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Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny |
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| Online Access: | https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/rpeis/article/view/20492 |
| Summary: | The aim of the paper is to present intentio operis as an interpretative strategy created by a text. According to Umberto Eco, this strategy can help to transcend the opposition between intentio auctoris and the interpreter’s unrestrained freedom. Although as a concept intentio operis belongs to literary texts, it seems to be an interesting construct to apply to legal interpretation, especially because it links different points of view on textual interpretation: the structural (‘how the text is constructed’) and the pragmatic (namely aspects of communication, such as the communicative intentions of the empirical author, the communicative intentions of the text).
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| ISSN: | 0035-9629 2543-9170 |