Conventional wisdom instructs courts to prioritize text’s “ordinary meaning.” But this Feature's “contextual textualism” method ...

Hans-Georg Gadamer offers us a unique way of conceiving of human understanding as a social, linguistic, back-and-forth ...

Kyokusanjin (1834) Kosankin-Gorō Kanamajiri-musume-setsuyō, vol. 3, Part 3, folio 18 verso, held by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Through this case, the study ...

Humans are the meaning-seeking animals. We have an unquenchable desire to understand how the world is connected. All cultures have myths and stories about how the universe was created and who has ...