Using Common Sense: A Linguistic Perspective on Judicial Interpretations of “Use a Firearm”

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This Article will show how analytical methods of legal and linguistic scholarship can interact to examine a legal text, in particular a provision of the federal criminal code, the interpretation of which has been hotly contested within the legal system.

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Linguistics, Law -- Interpretation & construction

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Clark D. Cunningham (Washington University School of Law)
Charles J. Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley)

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