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314Legal Norms as Linguistic conventionsIn Annual of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Philosophy, Postgraduate Students Book, Volume 4, Sofia University Press. pp. 15-30. 2020.Law is the main regulator of public relations, and the question of the proper use and understanding of legal language is essential for law enforcement. This topic is of interest to both lawyers and philosophers, who often join efforts to study it. This article attempts precisely to take such an interdisciplinary approach when examining legal rules as specific linguistic conventions. First of all, for the sake of a better and more thorough understanding of legal language, legal norms are viewed …Read more
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255Truth in legal normsPhilosophy 29 (4): 394-402. 2020.The text examines the status of the truth in the legal norms, trying to answer the questions of whether they can be subject to a truth assessment and, if such an assessment is possible, how a truth value can be attributed to legal norms. To achieve this goal, first of all, the text discusses some basic linguistic conceptions concerning the nature and truth of legal norms and subsequently, a a complex approach is being proposed for attributing truth-value to legal norms. On On the one hand,…Read more
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176Speaker Meaning and Conventional Meaning in Legal NormsPhilosophical Alternatives 31 (1): 120-138. 2022.Law is a main source of justice in a democratic society, and as such it must send clear and unequivocal messages to its addressees. Therefore, the question of the meaning in the legal vocabulary does not lose its relevance and universality. The present study examines the question of the linguistic significance of legal norms in legal vocabulary, applying an interdisciplinary approach. Joining the thesis that the legislation can be considered as an expression of the legally significant will of th…Read more
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120This research examines the issue of linguistic interpretation of normative texts as a special type of language translation. For this purpose, in the first place, we will support the view that the legal language, and in particular the language in which regulations are expressed has an independent nature. It will be presented as different from the daily language of society, and lawyers as a kind of mediator between both of these diverse, albeit close, languages. After this, legal consultation will…Read more
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Annual of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Philosophy, Postgraduate Students Book, Volume 4 (edited book)Sofia University Press. 2020.
Боян Баханов
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Alumnus, 2022
Брюксел, Брюксел, Belgium
Areas of Specialization
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Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Law |
20th Century Analytic Philosophy |
Epistemology |
Pragmatics |
Semantics |
Areas of Interest
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Value Theory |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
Philosophy of Law |
Epistemology |
Pragmatics |
Semantics |