Jusletter IT

Meaning and Metameaning as Entities: Content (Is) and Institutional Meaning (Ought)

  • Authors: Vytautas Čyras / Friedrich Lachmayer
  • Category of articles: Articles
  • Region: Austria
  • Field of law: Legal Theory, Legal Visualisation
  • Citation: Vytautas Čyras / Friedrich Lachmayer, Meaning and Metameaning as Entities: Content (Is) and Institutional Meaning (Ought), in: Jusletter IT 24 May 2018
The «meaning of meaning» is addressed. This theme was addressed by Ogden and Richards in 1923 as a semiotic triangle. We, however, consider the operational treatment of legal meaning. We distinguish between two kinds of meanings: institutional meaning and content meaning. The latter represents the semantics of a legal act – the text. The research question is how to represent the institutional meaning. Operations are, for example, to strengthen or lessen the meaning. We relate the institutional meaning with its representation; cf. the FRISCO framework and the semiotic tetrahedron. Multiple representations make sense because various stakeholders view the legal act differently.

Table of contents

  • 1. Research question
  • 2. The notions of content meaning and institutional meaning
  • 3. Strengthening or lessening of the meaning
  • 3.1. Strengthening or lessening of the content meaning
  • 3.2. Political frame as context in semiotics
  • 4. Two kinds of dualism: Is–Meaning (Sein–Sinn) and Is–Ought (Sein–Sollen)
  • 5. Relating institutional meaning with representation
  • 6. Related work
  • 7. Conclusions

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