Legal linguistics as a promising field of knowledge

Petro V.  Makushev; Olha V.  Minchenko; Iryna V.  Tsareva

Petro V. Makushev Department of General and Law Subjects, Dnipovskii University of the Humanities
Olha V. Minchenko Department of Theory of State and Law, National Academy of Internal Affairs
Iryna V. Tsareva Department of Social and Humanitarian Sciences, Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs

Keywords: language of law, legal technique, legal field, jurisprudence, legal linguistics

Abstract

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.

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