Lexical features of English legal discourse

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Legal discourse regulates relations between members of society and the existing definitions are based on sociolinguistic, communicative-activity, communicative-textual and cognitive motives. Its main functions consist in the formulation, preservation, clarification and implementation of rules. The first striking feature of the legal language is a great number of Latinisms, it is connected with Roman law. The author underlines that legal terminology is a system of lexical units of four levels: general scientific, interdisciplinary, proper legal and highly specialized legal terms.

Legal discourse, latinisms, terminological vocabulary, interdisciplinary term, highly specialized legal term

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IDR: 170196547   |   DOI: 10.24412/2500-1000-2022-10-2-157-159

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