PAROEMIA AND THE PHRASE “ECHAR BANDO” IN THE QUIXOTE. LEGAL PRAGMATICS AND SEMIOTICS

Abstract

The text offers a reversal of the traditional process of reading the cervantine work among lawyers. Glossing Borges, the author proposes: if I were granted the possibility of reading a page of Don Quixote as it was read in 1615, I would know how was literature (and in its case law) was in 1615. The iusliterary methodology about how we used to from a legal point of view means finding out the legal reading approach, considering such reading the way of understanding how the text worked. We can maintain then that the phrase echar bando present in Don Quixote implies pragmatic legal dimensions in a legal mandate or legislative decree regarding certain aspects of the norm procedure with have to do with certain  solemnities —formal proclamation— of its statement, its publicizing as well as its effectiveness ambition. Also, from the perspective of legal semiotics, analysis of the interpretation of The gesture of Don Quixote to echar bando reveals legal-performative action. The text concludes with an addendum of reading legal, valid for all times, and especially in the current