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How The Interpretation of Law Uses Semiotics
When looking at law itself, it is a composite form where there are individual norms that are formed together to create a whole. Texts incorporate the structural features of the signifiers with which they are built, but they are not conceptually identical to their signifiers as a whole.

According to Sebeok and Danesi, a coherent modelling system can be used to describe law. In traditional semiotic theory, a code is a system that provides specific types of signifiers that can be employed in a variety of ways and for a variety of representational goals.

In terms of semiotics, a lawyer's attempt to grasp the signs of the code, to explain the law, is called a decoding process, i.e., a method that is supplied to solve problems created by deviations (shifts in meaning) and questions about intents that are buried in the code.

The Legal System: The Semiotic Mesh Model
From a semiotic-legal perspective, the legal system is a web of legally significant texts and meanings. To state that the legal system follows a Semiotic Mesh Model is to say that legal documents are connected to one another in some way, whether through syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic exchanges between legal actors. It's critical to stress, as Swiss jurist Pierre Moor emphasises, that the set of texts is always mobilised by the actions of legal players, making the community of legal actors responsible for the legal system's continual activity. Semioticist Bernard Jackson points out that legal language is a medium of communication for a specialised set of people known as jurists.