Research Catalog

Title

Boycott in America : how imagination and ideology shape the legal mind / Gary Minda.

Author

Minda, Gary.

Publication

Carbondale [Ill.] : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1999.

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Details

Description

xiii, 271 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Gary Minda's critical study of boycotts in American law and culture focuses on how the word boycott has developed as a metaphoric, rather than as a rational or logical, form of reasoning. Minda first discusses the history, interpretation, and understanding of boycotts. He then turns to the role of metaphor in the interpretation of boycotts and of boycott law." "Drawing on cognitive psychology and linguistic theory, Minda argues that the metaphors judges choose in describing boycotts determine how they view boycotts." "One of Minda's major contributions is to show how cognitive theory and the analysis of conceptual metaphors can help to explain the development of the law of boycott. Equally important, Minda provides a unique history of the boycotts in three separate legal fields: labor, antitrust, and constitutional law." "For lawyers, judges, and legal scholars, this book provides a clear and cogent examination of boycott law. Linguistic and cognitive theorists should find the book useful for illustrating how metaphor and cognitive theory can be used to analyze legal opinions. Historians will find new histories of boycott. Lay readers interested in understanding the role of boycotts in American law and society will find the book insightful."--Jacket.

Subject

• Boycotts > Law and legislation > Interpretation and construction. > United States
• Judicial process > United States
• Metaphor
• metaphor
• Judicial process
• Metaphor
• Boykott
• Geschichte
• Recht
• Boycotts > Law and legislation > Interpretation and construction > United States
• Judicial process > United States
• Boycottage > Droit > Etats-Unis
• Processus judiciaire > Etats-Unis
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-263) and index.

Contents

Prologue : Boycott and the reptile hidden in the weeds -- Captain Boycott, the Irish Revolution, and metaphor -- Origins of boycott in America -- Boycotts and cognitive theory -- Metaphor and adjudication -- Radial category of secondary labor boycotts -- Radial category of civil rights boycotts -- Radial category of commercial boycotts -- Why the boycott chameleon has been misunderstood -- Changing social conceptions of boycott -- Ethos of the legal mind -- Epilogue : Ideology and the legal mind.

ISBN

• 0809321742
• 9780809321742

LCCN

98016474

OCLC

• ocm38602820
• 38602820
• SCSB-798443

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library