Document Type
Essay
Publication Title
Legal Meanings: The Making and Use of Meaning in Legal Reasoning
Abstract
Legal scholars use linguistic tools in their work as a matter of course, and scholars of Constitutional law regularly engage in semantic analysis, trying to determine what specific words and phrases mean in context. Historical linguistics (the study of how language changes over time) and corpus linguistics (the analysis of large bodies of text, now typically aided by computers) also have roles to play in the study of Constitutional law, and these tools prove to be particularly helpful in the study of the 2008 Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment.
First Page
77
Last Page
106
DOI
https://doi.org/1o.1515/9783110720969-005
Publication Date
2021
Recommended Citation
Vanden Bosch, James, "Heller (2008) and the Language of the Second Amendment: Grammar, Meaning, and Canonical Conventions" (2021). University Faculty Publications and Creative Works. 594.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/calvin_facultypubs/594