Again, we find examples of modulation in the text of the United States Constitution. One example is (or could be hypothetical) the vacancy appointment clause, which uses the word “break”. From a context perspective, a break could be any break in Senate business — even a lunch break. But in the context, the “pause” is best read as a modulation, whose meaning plays the complementary term of “session”. The relevant meaning of “recreation” is a modulation of the conventional semantic sense; it is limited to the break between sessions of the Senate. This difference between conventional semantics and modulation was indeed the source of disagreement between the judges in the Noel Canning case. The commercial context of this case suggests that Mason`s tort loss should be calculated in the same manner as in K. A language that precedes and follows a series of words, such as a particular phrase or clause. Quadrant 2: Business Environment In addition to universities and public research institutes, established for-profit companies are important start-up incubators. Individual limits can be set at the user level, for example in a commercial context. Context plays another important role in producing importance. A legal text can communicate an idea without explicitly mentioning it.
Context can “enrich” or complement the literal meaning of a text. This is a profound topic, but one way to approach it is to catalog some of the forms of so-called “pragmatic enrichment.” The two contextual roles we have identified can be clarified by invoking the distinction between interpretation and construction, which is the subject of an encyclopedic entry. Here`s the distinction: So far, the discussion has revolved around the role of context in producing “meaning” in the sense of communicative content. But there is another, very different, role that context can play. Context can provide the “purpose” of a law or the “constitutional values” that drive a clause in the constitutional text. We can approach this role of context by remembering the distinction between “purposivism” and “textualism” as theories of legal interpretation. Textualists are interested in the meaning of the text of the law: they look for the context to determine the content conveyed by the text of the law. Engagement writers have a very different approach to statutory interpretation: they believe that courts should determine the “objective purpose” or “function” of a statute. Legislation implementing a law should be designed to achieve this objective – even if achieving this objective requires different legal standards from those expressed in the text of the law. A teleocaust can look at the context in which a law was enacted to determine its purpose, but it is very different from looking at the context to determine the meaning of the text. Commercial context [40] We agree with the judge that the ordinary meaning of the terms of the prospectus is supported by the commercial context and the context reasonably understood by the parties at the time of entering into the contract.
Some businesses indicated a preference3.3 Study AreaThe Selwyn Street Store Master Plan focuses on the portion of Selwyn Street designated as Business 1 in the City of Christchurch Plan, adjacent open spaces (Selwyn Street Reserve) and Living 3 residential properties facing Selwyn Street (including church grounds, which is designated as living 3).3.Å Commercial context – local and citywideThe Christchurch City Plan defines the centre as a `local` centre. One of the most important roles that context plays occurs when a legal text is ambiguous – in the sense that it has more than one possible meaning. For example, the word “bank” may appear in legislation. “Bank” has more than one meaning. The land bordering a river is a “bank,” just like a financial institution that accepts deposits from customers. When a statute or regulation includes the word “bank,” we can almost always remove the ambiguity depending on the context. If the law deals with the regulation of financial institutions, the word “bank” almost certainly refers to the type of “bank” that accepts deposits. But if the law includes water pollution or navigation, then the “shoreline” is almost certainly the land adjacent to a river.
One of the most important tasks of lawyers and judges is the “interpretation” of legal texts, including constitutions, statutes, regulations, rules, treaties, etc. One aspect of communication concerns the linguistic meaning of the words and sentences that make up the text: this aspect of meaning is sometimes called “semantics”. The simple semantic meaning of a legal text is sometimes called the “literal meaning.” But the whole meaning of a text is almost always richer than the literal meaning. We might ask, “Where does the meaning of `extra` come from?” The answer to this question is context. The role of context in the production of meanings is called “pragmatic” by language philosophers and language theorists. Language philosophers distinguish between “conversational premises” (also called “speaker premises” or “pragmatic premises”) and “conventional premises” (or “semantic premises”) triggered by certain words or phrases (“never again” in the first example above). For our purposes, we can put aside these technical details. In its earliest uses (documented in the 15th century), context meant “weaving words together in language.” This meaning, now obsolete, developed logically from the Latin source of the word, contexere “to weave or join”. Today`s context most often refers to the environment or environment in which something (be it words or events) exists. When we say that something is contextualized, we mean that it is placed in an appropriate framework in which it can be properly considered. Economic framework conditions and economic framework conditions The company is mainly active in the non-residential construction market. There are other forms of ambiguity, including syntactic ambiguity, which results from the fact that sentence structure and punctuation are often consistent with more than one set of relationships between words.
Here`s a simple example: “The teacher said on Monday he was going to take an exam.” This could mean it was Monday when the professor said he would take an exam the next day. Or it could mean that the teacher said he could take an exam and that the exam would take place on Monday.