2v. Introduction to the second round table on law and semiotics : pragmatic method and some consequences -- The semiotics of finnish constitutional law on government finance -- How judges fool themselves : the semiotics of the easy case -- What is a hay baler? the semiotics answer from contract law -- Drafting and interpreting legal documents -- Metaphor and adlinguisticity in the literacy language of Michel Foucault -- Mediation and conflicts of moralities -- Decoding the code -- Modalities of Annunciation: An Introduction to Courtroom Speech -- Statutes in Common Law and Civil Law: Their Interpretation and -- The New Realism and Lawlessness in Kaleidoscope -- The Problem of Mother's Brother in 'Oedipus': A Structural View of Sophocles's Theban Plays -- Law and the Importance of Feelings -- Rhetoric and Legitimation: An Analysis of Supreme Court Reversals -- The Verdict': Dark Film Explores the Underside of the Law -- The Technologizing of the Law -- Sign of the Crimes: Medico-Legal Contexts of Detective Fiction -- Gender and Justice in Susan Glaspell's 'A Jury of Her Peers' -- Eric Voegelin's Semiotics of History -- Legal Realism in a Cross-Cultural Context -- In Search of the Truly Fake: Aspects of Iconicity and Deceit. Incluye índice