’Baby’ or ’fetus’?: Language and the construction of reality in a manslaughter trial
’Baby’ or ’fetus’?: Language and the construction of reality in a manslaughter trial
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“婴儿”还是“胎儿”？：过失杀人审判中的语言和现实建构
DOI：
10.1515/semi.1980.32.3-4.187
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发表时间：
1980
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
B. Danet
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作者：
B. Danet
正如这些引文中的斜体字所表明的那样，过失杀人或任何类型的杀戮指控很自然地认为受害者曾经活着。埃德林审判提供了关于语言与现实之间关系的一个有趣的案例研究，因为其中很大一部分涉及关于堕胎对象是否曾经是一个“人”、“男孩”、“男婴”的谈判。这个案例提醒我们，如今法律界和医学界都在努力应对这样一个事实的一系列含义：“生命”和“死亡”并不是离散的、二分的类别，而是谎言状态的语义标签。
As the italicized terms in these quotations indicate, the charge of manslaughter, or any type of killing, quite naturally takes for granted that the victim was once alive. The Edelin trial presents a fascinating case study in the relation between language and reality, since a good deal of it was concerned with negotiation over whether the object of the abortion had ever been a 'person', a 'male child', a 'baby boy'. This case reminds us that both the legal and the medical professions are struggling these days with a host of implications of the fact that 'life' and 'death' are not discrete, dichotomous categories, but rather are semantic labels for states that lie