 This vast field has been much studied over millennia by lawyers and philosophers, but only recently through the use of resources that may be borrowed from the 20th-century development of ‘pragmatics’ as a discipline in linguistics and the philosophy of language. Much recent work in the pragmatics of legal language has focused on Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, as a source of insights into the theory of legal interpretation (see e.g. Marmor 2008, 2014, Soames 2008, Ekins 2012 (see especially pp 205–211), Carston 2013, Solum 2013; on Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, see  pragmatics).