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"Rethinking speech" [2019] ELECD 1374; in Broekman, M. Jan (ed), "Rethinking Law and Language" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 1

Book Title: Rethinking Law and Language

Editor(s): Broekman, M. Jan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: Rethinking speech

Number of pages: 19

Abstract/Description:

Broadness and multidimensionality are the most striking features of the “rethinking” concept, because that concept always concerns what has been said in the past and what others bring us in the present tense. Even before beginning to rethink a certain theme, one respects and accepts words that were said. But rethinking is never a repetition: the treasures of thoughts and insights generated belong to multiple types of a language—we compare the jurist Hart and the writer Joyce as examples. Those thoughts function like a shining crystal. The emphasis is on speech, and speech is a particular style of lingual event, change of words, and the desire to restructure that characterizes any rethought theme; cultural dimensions are always at stake.