INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE最新文献

{"title":"Interpreters in UK Asylum Appeals: Evidence and Impact.","authors":"Alice Richardson","doi":"10.1007/s11196-025-10386-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11196-025-10386-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper considers the role of interpreters in the asylum system in the UK. The study analyses published reports of asylum appeals in the UK from 2000 to 2024, and considers how interpreters are referred to by judges, and how they impacted the outcome of the appeal. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, the study initially takes a broad quantitative view of the issue, followed by a Qualitative Content Analysis of 30 recent appeals. The results reveal that interpreters are materially impacting asylum outcomes, and at times, interpreting issues form the central motivation for lodging an appeal. The type and impact of interpreter interventions range from procedural to critical, with critical cases calling into question the applicant's credibility-a vital component of an asylum claim-which has lasting effects throughout the entire case. The findings raise questions about the current provision of interpreting services in UK asylum appeals, and how interpreter performance and comprehension can have significant legal ramifications on case outcomes. The findings contribute novel evidence to the current literature on the role of language in access to justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":"39 6","pages":"1887-1915"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13526119/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148867367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Statutory Interpretation and Corpus Evidence: Tensions Between Linguistic Reality and Legal Meaning.","authors":"Dana Roemling","doi":"10.1007/s11196-025-10336-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11196-025-10336-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines how linguistic meaning interacts with legal interpretation for the statutory term <i>child</i>, focusing on the 2013 Alabama Supreme Court case <i>Ex parte Ankrom</i>. In that case, the court held that <i>child</i> includes unborn individuals under chemical endangerment laws, a decision that raises important questions about how ordinary meaning is established. Using a triangulated, corpus-based framework grounded in linguistic theory, this study analyzes the term <i>child</i> across three corpora representing national, regional, and informal U.S. English. The methodology integrates semantic coding, grammatical context analysis, and lexical alternation to assess whether unborn individuals fall within the prototypical meaning of <i>child</i> in ordinary usage. The findings reveal a strong preference for interpreting <i>child</i> as referring to born individuals, with linguistic evidence supporting its extension to fetuses only in marked contexts. This tension between the court's interpretation and the linguistic evidence highlights the challenges of aligning legal definitions with everyday language use. In emphasizing the role of empirical linguistic data, the study contributes to ongoing debates in legal corpus linguistics around frequency, representativeness, and contextual meaning. Ultimately, this analysis offers insight into how corpus linguistics can support statutory interpretation and reduce interpretive ambiguity without overstepping the boundaries between linguistic and legal expertise.</p>","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":"39 5","pages":"1487-1508"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13222896/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148151300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metaphorical Peace: Translating the Women Peace and Security Agenda in the Arab World.","authors":"Catherine Turner, Sarah Al-Areqi","doi":"10.1007/s11196-026-10467-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-026-10467-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since the end of the Cold War the international peace architecture has grown exponentially. A progressively more detailed and conceptually broad understanding of peace has emerged to underpin peacemaking by the UN and other international actors. This definition has been developed through a series of resolutions and reports that articulate a specific understanding of 'peace' in which 'sustaining peace' requires the prevention of conflict and addressing its root causes. This paper argues that the expansion of this field has led to the situation where the concept of 'peace' has become so conceptually stretched that it operates in its current form as little more than a metaphor for a detailed normative international order which is concealed behind the metaphor. However, following nearly two decades of normative consolidation we are witnessing a global pushback against international norms. This dynamic is particularly evident when it comes to the Women Peace and Security agenda where language has emerged as a key terrain for the political contestation of norms. This paper compares the English and Arabic translation of key WPS resolutions to demonstrate the difficulties of 'translating' complex concepts related to peace across linguistic and cultural contexts. In doing this it provides a valuable resource for those concerned with the survival of Women Peace and Security as a global agenda.</p>","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":"39 6","pages":"2161-2181"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13526064/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148867447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coping with hypertensive treatment at Bono Regional Hospital in Sunyani, Ghana: a prospective observational cohort study.","authors":"Prince Owusu Adoma, Edward Wilson Ansah, Daniel Apaak, Richard Osei Agjei, Emmanuel Kumah, Richard Boateng, Elvis Enowbeyang Tarkang","doi":"10.11604/pamj.2023.45.185.39994","DOIUrl":"10.11604/pamj.2023.45.185.39994","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>the stress associated with hypertension treatment makes using coping strategies inevitable. However, most patients with hypertension apply inefficient coping strategies, leading to uncontrolled blood pressure (BP). The study analyzed coping strategies associated with hypertension treatment and determined how these coping strategies predicted the current BP of patients with hypertension.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>the study was a prospective observational cohort conducted between January and December, 2020. Consecutive sampling technique was used to enumerate 508 patients who consistently sought treatment at the healthcare facilities. A sphygmomanometer was used to measure BP to determine controlled and uncontrolled BP based on Ghana Health Service standards. A questionnaire was adapted from Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations-2 to measure patients' coping strategies. Descriptive statistics, cut off percentage and multiple linear regression were applied in analyzing the data at a 0.05 level of significance.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>females were two-thirds (74%) of the study population and the mean age was 58.40 ± 11.72. All patients with hypertension used the three coping strategies: emotion-oriented coping (EOC), task-oriented coping (TOC) and avoidance coping (AC). However, EOC was highly used (61.2%), followed by TOC (58.5%) and AC (46.2%). Also, the study found coping with treatment regimens to be relatively poor since it was only physical exercise (79.5%) that they effectively observed. The multiple linear regression results revealed that the three coping strategies were significant predictors of current BP levels [F (3, 117) = 12.390 at p < 0.001]. Thus, AC, TOC, and EOC explained 37.4% of the variability of current BP status (R2 adj=0.374). Specifically, patients who use TOC (66.3%) were more likely to have a controlled BP than those using EOC (53.7%) and AC (35.8%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>patients' coping strategies were inadequate for hypertension treatment since treatment regimens were poorly observed. Meanwhile, EOC is most likely to negatively affect a patient's treatment, leading to uncontrolled BP. Our study recommends the need to encourage patients to combine their EOC with TOC to enable them control their BP better.</p>","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":"19 1","pages":"185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10656584/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74306206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"International Law in The Era of Blockchain: Law Semiotics.","authors":"Koshzhanova Baktygul","doi":"10.1007/s11196-023-10017-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11196-023-10017-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Being built on the ground of mutual effect, facing the current state-isolation, international law is losing its grip on efficiency. This makes some of us to question (1) If law is not working, do we still need law? If we would say no, the history shows that such is the path to the state-suicide. As Smithian mutual benefits is the assurance of the individual benefits, we need international relationships to create the benefits for the individual states, hence international law, Yet the current one is certainly not working, then, the question, (2) What should the international law be? The enforcement of the international law could be accomplished through the blockchain. As blockchain \"went bypass\" the national law, and simply negated it, yet it is still not immune to the scope of international jurisdiction. We also argue that the blockchain' smart contract is not sufficient enough to operate smoothly. Human brain is structured as the mirror rather than a glass and transferring the law interpretation to the machine would not work, hence, we designed the formula of langue and parole, blockchain multiseg operating under the semiotics of the international law. Here the language learning is modelled with the supervisory and reinforcing algorithms, with supervisory predetermined with bias X,Y towards the values of law. Sort of form of constant repetends of Heidegger's hermeneutics circle. The most important part in this paper is written with the purpose to explain that international law is at the same struggle that Kafka had. Carrying the weight of both, the clothed façade and true self, first being the morality guide and later the states will, and not being neither, international law is self-isolated from the real world, as Gregor Samsa was. Hence, this is not the paper of secularization, no customs, no higher purpose, nothing except the will of states, that can be constantly renewed with the signifier and signified being linked and re-linked.</p>","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10212729/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9692303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecosystem Vulnerability. New Semantics for International Law.","authors":"Mariano Longo,&nbsp;Vincenzo Lorubbio","doi":"10.1007/s11196-023-09998-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11196-023-09998-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effects of climate change and increasing environmental pollution have clearly shown the vulnerability of individuals, local communities, and the natural environment, even in the Western context. However, despite such unquestionable data, International Law is still struggling to find adequate, unambiguous, effective solutions to the issue. Even the 'human right to a healthy environment', recognised by the UN General Assembly in 2022, is permeated by an anthropocentric idea of the world, which prevents it from fully dealing with ecosystem issues so as to protect any living and non-living being. The paper starts by exploring the historical relevance of the concept of limit and the lack of boundaries in contemporary society, aiming to show that new semantics are needed, in order to overcome contemporary extractivism. An analysis of international legislation and jurisprudence will investigate the role that the concept of ecosystem vulnerability might play in the implementation of both human rights and the rights of nature.</p>","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10140698/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9689363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vulnerability. From the Paradigmatic Subject to a New Paradigm of the Human Condition? An Introduction.","authors":"Mariano Longo,&nbsp;Vincenzo Lorubbio","doi":"10.1007/s11196-023-09999-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11196-023-09999-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10126536/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9692304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digitisation and Sharing of Collections: Museum Practices and Copyright During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Mateusz Klinowski,&nbsp;Karolina Szafarowicz","doi":"10.1007/s11196-023-09986-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11196-023-09986-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article concerns the conflict between copyright and museums' digitisation and online sharing of collections. This issue has recently become particularly important in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors outline the concept of a virtual museum and present the most important copyright provisions in EU law that may create obstacles for cultural institutions in realising virtual counterparts. To perceive copyright as the main obstacle in the process of digitisation and online sharing of collections is not unusual. Hence, the article briefly presents legal framework of the European copyright applicable to such situations. The authors argue that although copyright offers a range of possibilities for museums interested in digitising their collections, at the same time it is responsible for a <i>chilling effect</i>, resulting in fear of potential infringement and liability. The authors conclude that the EU's development of new legislation, coinciding with the need for digitisation and online sharing of cultural heritage caused by the pandemic, has favoured public interest at the expense of creators' rights, but still lacks satisfactory legal tools for effectively allowing cultural institutions to digitise and share their collections.</p>","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":" ","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10117266/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9714564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Queer Privacy Protection: Challenges and the Fight within Libraries.","authors":"Darra Hofman,&nbsp;Michele A L Villagran","doi":"10.1007/s11196-023-09994-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11196-023-09994-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has forced libraries to shift their service-delivery model online, infiltrating countless interactions-from storytime to reference questions to social groups-into digital mediation, typically by third-party platforms outside the library's control, generating mineable, persistent digital traces. One community particularly vulnerable to the impacts of surveillance is the queer community, where an outing, at least in the United States, imposes a potential loss of housing and employment and may subject the outed person to violence. Libraries-particularly public and school libraries-have once again become sites of conflict and resistance, with queer people and materials increasingly coming under attack both physically and legally. A primary shield by which libraries try to protect their patrons from such attacks is \"privacy.\" Librarians, as professionals, proclaim a commitment to privacy embedded in such documents as the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institution's Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment. However, these ideals exist in broader systems-including legal and cultural structures-which constrain and complicate abstract commitments to privacy. This article examines the challenges of queer digital privacy within libraries in the United States, focusing on the polysemous, boundary-crossing nature of queerness, the digital and the material, privacy, and libraries (as both concepts and institutions). In particular, this article demonstrates how binary-bound, individual-rights-oriented legal approaches to privacy have arisen, and been mediated, by cis-heteronormative patriarchal values and how the sociotechnical materialities in which they occurred (such as paper-based recordkeeping) are fundamentally incompatible with queer privacy needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10116439/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9714565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"State Provision of Resilience in Social Compulsory Care: A Vulnerability Analysis of Physical Constraint of Children and Youth Without Consent.","authors":"Titti Mattsson, Sofia Enell","doi":"10.1007/s11196-023-09987-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11196-023-09987-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children's and young persons' rights have received increasing been focus in recent decades, due in a significant degree to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Sweden, compulsory care in the social-services system is disputed, not least for the forceful measures that facility personnel have at their disposal to control children in certain conflict situations. The general aim of this article is to examine how the increased emphasis in Sweden on children's rights is promoting resilience for children and youth in youth compulsory secure-care settings. A more general question is whether the child-rights discourse leads in practice to increased resilience for children and youth in this setting, or even in general. The empirical material shows that children and young people's perceptions of care and treatment are strongly linked to their interactions with staff and how the staff use restrictive measures. Applying Martha Fineman's vulnerability theory in this context means that achieving resilience demands an analysis of the institutional settings in which children and young persons live their day-to-day lives, including their relationships in this setting. Comparing the legal possibilities of physical constraint with interviews of children and personnel reveals that relevant legislative frameworks and children's-rights discourse should serve as a protection mechanism for children and youths, but in real life, these seem to have limited effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10024298/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9719859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}