Institutional pragmatics and legal ontology limits of the descriptive approach of texts

  • Authors:
  • Danièle Bourcier

  • Affiliations:
  • CNRS-Paris

  • Venue:
  • Law and the Semantic Web
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Pragmatics concerns itself with discourse as an illocutory act in a dynamic context. Building an ontology means that you describe a state of the world at a certain moment and in a certain form. How is it possible to take into account the dynamic and implicit dimension of legal discourse in the building of an ontology? This article mainly explores the new research area of institutional pragmatics and will conclude with some contradictory perspectives on pragmatics and ontology.