Publication details
Argumentation by Literary Fiction in the Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper refers to possibility of argumentation by literary fiction in law, particularly in reasoning of judicial decisions. The central thesis of this paper is that such argumentation is an admissible instrument of legal rhetoric even in the Central Europe discourse. It is not so rare in Common law system but situation in Civil law system and especially in the Central Europe is different. Due to historical experience of Real Socialism, law is reluctant to admit almost any non-legal influences on law. However, argument by literary fiction is a kind of metaphor which is based on common cultural knowledge and which is able to clarify true meaning of legal rules within their wider context. Aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual theoretical framework of the use of argumentation by literary fiction in legal argumentation in the Central Europe. |