Legal language, with its distinct vocabulary and structure, plays a critical role in conveying legal intentions and ensuring clarity in judicial and legislative communication. This study investigates the lexical features that characterize legal contexts by analyzing authentic legal texts through a qualitative linguistic lens. The focus is placed on identifying specialized terminology, archaic expressions, nominalizations, redundancy, and the strategic use of modal verbs and passive constructions. These features are essential for achieving precision, formality, and consistency in legal communication, but they also present significant challenges for interpretation, especially among non-experts and in legal translation. The methodology involves a corpus-based analysis of diverse legal genres, including statutes, contracts, and judicial opinions. Using both computational tools and manual annotation, the research identifies key patterns in the lexicon of legal English. The results highlight the prevalence of technical terms, the enduring presence of Latinisms, and a reliance on dense, nominal structures. Furthermore, the discussion explores the pragmatic functions of redundancy and binomial expressions in enhancing legal certainty. The paper concludes that while these lexical features fulfill crucial legal functions, they also complicate accessibility and translation. Understanding these features is therefore vital for legal practitioners, translators, and educators. The findings underscore the importance of legal lexical awareness and provide insights that may improve legal drafting, interpretation, and cross-linguistic communication. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of the linguistic intricacies of the legal domain and advocates for a more informed approach to legal language pedagogy and reform.
| Mualliflar | Салихова , Гульноза, Палуанова , Халифа |
|---|---|
| Jurnal | Lingvospektr |
| Nashr sanasi | 2025-05-02 |
| Jild | 4 |
| Son | 1 |
| Betlar | 575-587 |
| Til | Ingliz |
юридический лексикон, юридический дискурс, юридическая терминология, лексические особенности, юридический язык, legal lexicon, legal discourse, legal terminology, lexical features, legal language
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