The focus of this present work is on the legal domain that deals with remedies, and partly with some historical development; it does not deal in any depth with the other legal domains. Moreover, the book does not treat the topic in the conventional way. The aim of this work is to discuss and explain, using a linguistic approach, judicial decisions in questions of the issuing of injunctions and the ordering of specific performance in the Anglo-American legal system. The purpose of this linguistic approach is to explain a legal phenomenon by means of the distinction between the two principal verb aspects — the perfective and imperfective. The analysis and application of the set of relevant linguistic features take place against the background of a question that has occupied linguists (as well as sociologists and anthropologists) for a very long time — whether language reflects reality or whether reality is seen to a large extent only through language (the so-called “Whorfian hypothesis”).
CONTENTS: Part One: The Whorfian Hypothesis and Remedies
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Verb Aspect
Chapter 3. Development of Aspect in English
Chapter 4. An Old Tale
Part Two: Verb Aspect and Remedies
Chapter 5. The Model
Chapter 6. Classical Equity Tales
Chapter 7. Modern Tales
