Pragmatics and Legal Interpretation. Il modello conversazionale by Francesca Poggi

Abstract

Francesca Poggi’s Il modello conversazionale. Sulla differenza tra comprensione ordinaria e interpretazione giuridica significantly contributes to the theorical reflection on law, both on the methodological level and on the level of the theses that it introduces and defends. I will try to highlight the book’s theoretical reach under three aspects in particular. First, the twofold contribution to the contemporary philosophical debate as regards the interaction between legal theory and philosophy of language. Second, the connection between the theory of collective intentionality and legal interpretation, in the light of the conversational model. Third, the theoretical potentialities of such model, in a normative perspective as well.