【摘要】 法律术语经常被认为是一种封闭性话语,无需借助其他外在文本而可以独立存在。文章通过对香港外佣案件中"通常居住"这一表述的实证分析并结合相关案例的讨论,从社会符号学的视角来审视法律术语的建构、解构以及重构,从而揭示法律术语的出现、发展具有一定的时空性。特定法律术语含义的建构具有一定的社会性,而术语某一既定的含义也会随着社会的发展变化而被解构,而这解构的过程又是新一轮的建构,即重构。法律解释不是纯粹的解释方法应用,而是不同社会主体之间对话的过程和结果。文章表明,从社会符号学的视角来审视法律解释活动、法学方法论具有很强的理论研究价值和实践解释能力。更多还原

【Abstract】 Legal terms are usually regarded as a type of closed discourse; that is,they can exist independently without the need of resorting to other external texts. This study,via an empirical analysis of the expression of"ordinary residence"in the cases of foreign domestic helpers in HK as well as a discussion of other relevant cases,examines the construction,destruction and reconstruction of legal terms,and therefore unravels the temporal and spatial characteristics in the birth and evolution of legal terms. The construction of the sense of a certain legal term is of social nature,and an established sense may be deconstructed with the social development and change,which is another round of construction,and hence reconstruction. Legal Interpreta-tion is not purely the application of approaches to interpretation but the process and product of dialogue among different social actors. This study shows that sociosemiotics can provide a strong research value in theory and interpretive force in practice to examine legal interpretation and legal methodology.更多还原