Open AccessRegarding intentio operis in the texts of legal acts
Author(s) -
Agnieszka Choduń
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ruch prawniczy, ekonomiczny i socjologiczny
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2543-9170
pISSN - 0035-9629
DOI - 10.14746/rpeis.2019.81.4.2
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , interpreter , construct (python library) , opposition (politics) , linguistics , epistemology , sociology , psychology , computer science , philosophy , political science , law , programming language , politics
The aim of the paper is to present intentio operis as an interpretative strategy created by a text. According to Umberto Eco, this strategy can help to transcend the opposition between intentio auctoris and the interpreter’s unrestrained freedom. Although as a concept intentio operis belongs to literary texts, it seems to be an interesting construct to apply to legal interpretation, especially because it links different points of view on textual interpretation: the structural (‘how the text is constructed’) and the pragmatic (namely aspects of communication, such as the communicative intentions of the empirical author, the communicative intentions of the text).