Ethno-linguo-cultural specificity of Russian official concept “court” in Europeanization era

The article considers the nominative field of the concept “court” in the history of the Russian official language on the material of legislative documents of the 18th century. The subject of the study is the relationship between the official segment of the concept “court” and the ordinary segment in the context of ethnic mentality. The hypothesis of ethno-cultural neutrality of the official segment has been tested. Special attention is paid to the evaluation nominations of the concept, their syncretsemia is revealed. The activity of non-terminological, morally and religiously marked nominations in relation to terms is found. Functional-semantic insufficiency of legal categories, their stable connection with moral and ethical categories in legal language consciousness is shown. Domination of semantic and conceptual constituents “truthful”, “righteous / decent”, “fair” over “legal” is established. The functional weakness of the conceptual sphere “law” is noted. The traditional ethno-specific perception of legal language consciousness is stated as predominance of moral and ethical concepts “truth”, “righteousness”, “fairness”, “good”, “conscience”, “soul” over the “law”. A high degree of ethno-cultural marking of the official segment of the concept “court” with a dominant meliorative valuation was noted. The analysis of the ordinary segment of the concept “court” in Russian paremiology revealed the above mentioned ethno-cultural concepts with a prevailing pejorative estimate. The coincidence of the justice pattern in the official and ordinary legal consciousness is noted.