Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: Investigating legal interpretation and argumentation -- The Dulac affair and the triple game of contemporary art -- Argumentation, rhetoric and legal justification. The case of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal ruling on abortion -- The pragmatics of evidence discourse: Ostensive acts -- Section 2: Looking at language to investigate legal challenges -- Illusions of a common Language: Impressions of an arbitration practitioner -- Pragmatic features of Italian court proceedings -- Politeness Matters: What honorifics can tell us about accuracy in Japanese-English court interpreting -- Textual representation as a conceptual tool: Big data analysis of legal language -- Section 3: Theories of sense and meaning for legal investigations -- What is practical about law? Contemporary legal philosophy on legal practice -- Natural semantic (legal?) metalanguage. What can legal theory learn from Anna Wierzbicka? -- Index