Comparative Legal LinguisticsAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 347 стор. This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law. Using examples drawn from major and lesser legal languages, it examines the major legal languages themselves, beginning with Latin through German, French and English. |
Зміст
Legal Language and Legal Linguistics | 3 |
2 Genres of Legal Language | 4 |
3 Legal Linguistics as a Discipline | 6 |
4 The Importance of Legallinguistic Knowledge | 19 |
5 Structure and Content of this Book | 21 |
Legal Language as a Language for Special Purposes | 29 |
Functions of Legal Language | 31 |
3 Transmission of Legal Messages | 33 |
The Heritage of Legal Latin | 125 |
2 History of Legal Latin | 126 |
3 Latin in Modern Legal Languages | 136 |
4 The Communication Value of Legal Latin | 150 |
5 Dictionaries of Legal Latin | 157 |
Legal German | 159 |
2 Characteristics of Legal German | 173 |
3 International Importance of Legal German | 179 |
4 Strengthening the Authority of the Law | 39 |
5 Strengthening Lawyers Team Spirit | 52 |
6 Linguistic Policy | 53 |
7 The Cultural Task of Legal Language | 58 |
Characteristics of Legal Language | 65 |
2 Information Overload | 72 |
3 Universality and Aloofness | 73 |
4 Systemic Character | 77 |
5 Structure and Formalism in Legal Texts | 81 |
6 Frequency of initialisations and Acronyms | 88 |
7 Sentence Complexity and Diversity of Language Elements | 90 |
8 Archaism and Solemnity | 92 |
9 Proper Use of Legal Language | 96 |
Legal Terminology | 105 |
2 Characteristics of Legal Terminology | 108 |
3 Formation of Legal Terminology | 112 |
The Major Legal Languages | 123 |
Legal French | 187 |
2 Characteristics of Legal French | 199 |
3 International Position Today | 211 |
Legal English | 221 |
2 Development of Legal English | 225 |
3 Characteristics of Legal English | 228 |
4 Legal English as a Global Language | 240 |
Conclusion | 255 |
Lexical Comprehension and Research Needs | 257 |
2 Terminological Interaction between Legal Languages | 259 |
3 Problems of Lexical Comprehension | 261 |
4 The Need for Jurilinguistic Research on Legal Institutions and Concepts | 265 |
Alphabetic Bibliography | 269 |
Systematic Bibliography | 295 |
Foreign Terms and Expressions | 305 |
Index | 317 |
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