Open AccessHvad siger loven? - om retsreglerne som kommunikative handlinger
Author(s) -
Jørgen Schack
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
hermes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.759
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1903-1785
pISSN - 0904-1699
DOI - 10.7146/hjlcb.v3i5.21446
Subject(s) - speech act , utterance , context (archaeology) , linguistics , law , law and economics , sociology , computer science , political science , philosophy , history , archaeology
Law of contract is concerned with what may be called "the promising game" as it contains the rules which constitute the act of "making a promise". Law of contract thus resembles the traditional speech act theory of Austin and Searle. According to speech act theory, to primise is to utter a conventional formula in approproate circumstances: what makes an utterance a promise are certain conventional rules involving features of the context.