Open AccessLegal linguistics as a promising field of knowledge
Author(s) -
P. V. Makushev,
Olga Minchenko,
Ірина Царьова
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cuestiones políticas/cuestiones políticas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2542-3185
pISSN - 0798-1406
DOI - 10.46398/cuestpol.3968.36
Subject(s) - legal translation , applied linguistics , quantitative linguistics , linguistics , media linguistics , interpretation (philosophy) , text linguistics , hermeneutics , field (mathematics) , empirical legal studies , relevance (law) , legal research , sociology , epistemology , political science , law , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
The relevance of the article is stipulated for the necessity to study a new and promising field of knowledge – legal linguistics. The purpose of the article is to study legal linguistics as a promising field of knowledge. Achieving the goal of the study necessitated processing the scientific literature on legal techniques, hermeneutics, linguistic interpretation, public speaking, and legal linguistics. The main method while studying these issues is the hermeneutic method, which is programmed for a new approach to understanding and interpreting the language of law and the language of laws, legal language formation and allowed to understand the text as a process of interpretation. The problems of linguistic field, interaction of linguistics and law are revealed, the specific functioning of language in the field of law is analyzed. Prospects of combining legal and linguistic competence, interpretation of texts of laws, speeches of judges and lawyers, and legal translation are studied. The article emphasizes the necessity to single out such a field of knowledge as legal linguistics and the prospects for its development are outlined.