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"Word, seme, digit" [2019] ELECD 1387; in Broekman, M. Jan (ed), "Rethinking Law and Language" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 241

Book Title: Rethinking Law and Language

Editor(s): Broekman, M. Jan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 8

Section Title: Word, seme, digit

Number of pages: 42

Abstract/Description:

Any view on language and its links to law has to consider how today words are defined in two types: analog and digital. And everyday life takes place via conversions: AD and DA conversions are influential in all lingual utterances, legal expressions included. They determine the plurality of meanings and contexts of our words, whereby datafication fulfills a key function in their genesis. Artificial intelligence seems in this context evident in every scientific and linguistic step. The question of how law adapts to those actual developments is decisive in the rethinking process. Three issues are brought to the fore: (a) a critique of actual cyber law; (b) a description of actual datafication processes and the role of data in general; and (c) the development and mentality of the actually fashionable and expanding artificial intelligence. With the two conversions as a point of reference, new profiles are researched that characterize the “law–language–law” theme.