The language of law reflects the overlapping, competing and co-existing nature of legal discourse; its form both the product of its linguistic history and a response to the fluidity of legal culture. 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. Each chapter includes an historical overview of the growth of the language, its international use, its coherence in the various countries using it and its relationship to cognate legal languages. Where relevant, the characteristics of legal cultures are described to explain the features of the legal language. The work will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and practitioners in the areas of comparative law, legal theory, semiotics, and linguistics.
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Professor Heikki E.S. Mattila is Professor of Legal Linguistics at the University of Lapland, Finland. His current research interests focus on comparative law and comparative legal linguistics. He has published several studies on legal languages, especially on legal Latin, as well as on family law, law of inheritance and international private law. Professor Mattila is also Docent of Comparative Law at the University of Helsinki in Finland.
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Legal language does not qualify as a language in the same way as French, Finnish, or Arabic, for example. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
linguistique juridique, droit européen uniforme, modern legal languages, droit des langues, other legal languages, lex retro non agit, chancellery style, terminological work, contra stipulatorem, multiples langues, legal linguistics, legal informatics, new legal terms, legal semiotics, legal messages, linguistic zone, jus commune, legal translation, notarial profession, judicial language, diacritic signs, legal science, legal dealings, continental lawyer, linguistic policy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, United States, European Union, European Communities, Court of Justice, Holy Roman Empire, Member States, Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, Age of Enlightenment, Western Europe, Catholic Church, Eastern Europe, Court of Chancery, Demotic Greek, Low German, Medieval Latin, Second World War, Old French, Allgemeines Landrecht, Grand Duchy, Republic of India, Black's Law Dictionary, Courts of Westminster, Great Britain, North Africa New!
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Legal language does not qualify as a language in the same way as French, Finnish, or Arabic, for example. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
linguistique juridique, droit européen uniforme, modern legal languages, droit des langues, other legal languages, lex retro non agit, chancellery style, terminological work, contra stipulatorem, multiples langues, legal linguistics, legal informatics, new legal terms, legal semiotics, legal messages, linguistic zone, jus commune, legal translation, notarial profession, judicial language, diacritic signs, legal science, legal dealings, continental lawyer, linguistic policy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, United States, European Union, European Communities, Court of Justice, Holy Roman Empire, Member States, Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, Age of Enlightenment, Western Europe, Catholic Church, Eastern Europe, Court of Chancery, Demotic Greek, Low German, Medieval Latin, Second World War, Old French, Allgemeines Landrecht, Grand Duchy, Republic of India, Black's Law Dictionary, Courts of Westminster, Great Britain, North Africa New!
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- Black's Law Dictionary, Second Pocket Edition by Bryan A. Garner on 6 pages
- Legal Language by Peter M. Tiersma on 6 pages
- Status Change of Languages (Foundations of Communication and Cognition) by Ulrich Ammon on 4 pages
- Law and Semiotics Volume 1 by Roberta Kevelson on page 12, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Language of the Law by David Mellinkoff on page 10, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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