16. FILIPPO DOMANESCHI
Information acquired: 2025
FILIPPO DOMANESCHI is an academic who published a paper in 2022 entitled When Lawyers Are More Logical Than Ordinary Speakers and When They Are Not. FILIPPO DOMANESCHI published this work as part of a team: Domaneschi, Filippo. Here is a description of this work: There is currently underway a wide debate on the nature of legal interpretation. At issue, in particular, is whether legal interpretation is a form of communication that can be assimilated to ordinary communication or whether it is marked by an irreducible specificity. One aspect of this debate concerns pragmatic meanings, i.e., meanings which are not expressed by the semantic content of legal provisions, but which can be grasped through pragmatic inferences. According to some authors, legal experts do not ordinarily rely on such meanings, or, better to say, they do not rely on them as routinely as ordinary speakers do. In order to test the hypothesis that legal experts are less prone to rely on pragmatic meanings, we have designed a pilot experiment comparing the way in which pragmatic meaning factors into the way people with legal.