Carvalho E.M. Semiotics of International Law: Trade and Translation

London/New York: Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, 2011 - ISBN: 978-90-481-9010-2 (Print) 978-90-481-9011-9 (Online).
"Semiotics of International Law: Trade and Translation" underscores the challenges of international law in a multicultural, multilingual world, offers a perspective on the role of diplomatic and juridical discourse in international order, shows how semantics and semiotics play a role in disputes and in their resolution.International Legal Discourse: Legal Culture Building Legal Discourse.
Culture and Legal Culture: A Semiotic Approach.
Legal Culture as a System of Signification.
Legal Culture as Communication.
International Legal Discourse: On Diplomatic Discourse and the Legal-Diplomatic Discourse.
Diplomatic Discourse.
Legal-Diplomatic Discourse.
The Power of Legal-Diplomatic Discourse.
The WTO Decision-Making Discourse: the Circumstances of Decision-Making Discourse.
From GATT to the WTO: Regulating International Trade.
The WTO Dispute Settlement System and the Influence of the Decision-Making Instances of the Dispute Settlement Body.
The WTO Decision-Making Discourse: the Linguistic Context in the Decision-Making Discourse of the Appellate Body.
The Choice of Meaning in Discourse.
The Authors of Legal-Diplomatic Discourse: Interpreters and Intentions.
The Decision-Making Discourse of the Appellate Body: Treaties and Dictionaries as Referents.