Even if a text meant whatever the speaker meant or intended to communicate, it would not follow that legal interpretation should seek the speaker's communicative intention

There is a more fundamental and more interesting problem with the position – one that is endemic to much literature on legal interpretation. The position moves without argument from a claim about linguistic meaning to a conclusion about the correct method of legal interpretation. Even if it were true that a text meant whatever the speaker meant or intended to communicate, it would not follow that legal interpretation should seek the speaker’s communicative intention. Substantive argument is need