# Language Log: The Supreme Court Fails Semantics

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-07-08-language-log-the-supreme-court-fails-semantics

The piece rejects a context-free semantic analysis of a school banner and argues that its anti-establishment meaning arises through shared frames.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 July 2007

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 8 July 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: semantics, pragmatics, law, political-discourse.

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