Estatuto e prâticas do texto juridico segundo uma perspectiva sociossemiôtica

Abstract

Far from having one sole meaning, a text always authorizes a plurality of readings. And the meaning attributed to a text always depends, at least partly, on the context wherein it is read. On this basis, social discourses - among which, more specifically, legal texts - appear as discourses which make sense only “in situation” The meanings that they are supposed to convey are constructed (and negotiated) through processes in which two apparently heterogeneous types of doings - practices of interaction and practices of interpretation - appear as inseparable. The reason is that in the universe of legal intercourse and, more generally, of social interaction, the very production of meaning is, in itself, a way of acting.