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PART 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1

1 Legal Language and Legal Linguistics 1

1 The Concept of Legal Language 1

2 Genres of Legal Language 2

3 Legal Linguistics as a Discipline 5

4 The Importance and Dissemination of Legal-linguistic Knowledge 21

5 Structure and Content of this Book 25

PART 2: LEGAL LANGUAGE AS A LANGUAGE FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES 41

2 Functions of Legal Language 41

1 Importance of the Theory of Communication 41

2 Achieving Justice 41

3 Transmission of Legal Messages 44

4 Strengthening the Authority of the Law 50

5 Strengthening Lawyers' Team Spirit 65

6 Linguistic Policy 66

7 The Cultural Task of Legal Language 72

3 Characteristics of Legal Language 87

1 Precision 87

2 Information (Over)load 95

3 Universality and Aloofness 96

4 Systemic Character 101

5 Structure and Formalism in Legal Texts 106

6 Frequency of Abbreviations 114

7 Sentence Complexity and Diversity of Language Elements 121

8 Archaism and Solemnity 123

9 Proper Use of Legal Language 128

4 Legal Terminology 137

1 Legal Concepts 137

2 Characteristics of Legal Terminology 140

3 Formation of Legal Terminology 145

PART 3: THE MAJOR LEGAL LANGUAGES 161

5 The Heritage of Legal Latin 161

1 The Importance of Roman Law 161

2 History of Legal Latin 162

3 Latin in Modern Legal Languages 173

4 The Communication Value of Legal Latin 191

5 Dictionaries of Legal Latin 199

6 Legal German 203

1 History of Legal German 203

2 Characteristics of Legal German 218

3 International Importance of Legal German 226

7 Legal French 237

1 History of Legal French 237

2 Characteristics of Legal French 249

3 International Position Today 263

8 Legal Spanish 273

1 History of Legal Spanish 273

2 Characteristics of Legal Spanish 285

3 International Importance of Legal Spanish 297

9 Legal English 305

1 The Common-Law System 305

2 Development of Legal English 309

3 Characteristics of Legal English 313

4 Legal English as a Global Language 331

PART 4: CONCLUSION 353

10 Lexical Comprehension and Research Needs 353

1 Changes in Legal-linguistic Dominance in the International Arena 353

2 Terminological Interaction between Legal Languages 357

3 Problems of Lexical Comprehension 359

4 The Need for Jurilinguistic Research on Legal Institutions and Concepts 363

A Iphabetical B ib liography 367

Systematic Bibliography 415

1. General 415

2. Legal Latin 418

3. The International Position of the Major Languages 419

4. Legal German 421

5. Legal French 423

6. Legal Spanish 424

7. Other Romance Legal Languages 426

8. Legal English 427

9. Slavic Legal Languages; Modern Legal Greek 428

Foreign Terms and Expressions 431

Index 447