Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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...This shows that while the importance of civil society as a herald of collective voice cannot be overemphasized (Habermas, 1996), in situations of deep moral disagreement additional institutionalized voice options and a deliberate broadening of the debate are needed....
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...…various disciplines such as law (Scott 2009), discourse studies (Coulthard [1992] 2013), linguistics (Ervo 2016; Solan and Gales 2016), pragmatics (Mey 2016), politics (Habermas 1996), semiotics (Cheng and Sin 2008b), sociology (Chow and Yin 2018), and psychology (Levinson 2018; Wang and Tu 2018)....
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...If we consider legal terms as individual but interactive signs within legal sign systems, legal signs can be deemed as “symbolic actions” (Fisher 1987, 38), which are historically and culturally grounded and shaped in the socio-political context (Fisher 1984; Habermas 1996; Cheng and Cheng 2014)....
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...Social movements often develop to shed light on social problems and advocate for change, putting activist organizations at the centre of social transformation (Habermas, 1996)....
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...putting activist organizations at the centre of social transformation (Habermas, 1996)....
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...As a normative ideal, the public sphere is a ‘warning system with sensors’ spread throughout society independent from the state apparatus (Habermas, 1996 [1992]: 359). Political decisions must be steered by communication flows in the public sphere. These flows should start at the periphery and ‘pass through the sluices of democratic procedures at the entrance to the parliamentary complex’ (Habermas, 1996 [1992]: 356)....
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...As a normative ideal, the public sphere is a ‘warning system with sensors’ spread throughout society independent from the state apparatus (Habermas, 1996 [1992]: 359)....
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...Or, to use Habermas’s metaphor, the press had to pay closer attention to its function as the warning sensors of the public sphere. The letters section is a concrete instance of how newspapers are organized to let concerns from the periphery be heard in a wider public sphere. The section has remained a stable element since the penny press of the 1830s. In a recent study of US newspapers, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (2007) shows that editors believe this ‘wide open forum’, as they call it, is good both for democracy and for circulation....
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