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The Role of Culture in Legal Languages, Legal Interpretation and Legal Translation [PDF]
The aim of this short essay is to highlight and concisely explore-but not address in depth-some cultural aspects related to legal languages, legal interpretation and legal translation. We would like to consider briefly the following questions: How can elements of legal language, as exemplified by proper names and euphemisms, be connected with cultural (
Anna Piszcz, Halina Sierocka
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Digital Transformation of Legal Services and Access to Justice: Challenges and Possibilities
The pandemic affected the access to justice situation in terms of the never rapid shift to digitalisation of legal services, and in this article, we evaluate whether artificial intelligence (AI) and its state-of-the-art technologies like machine learning
Kiršienė Julija +2 more
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DEFINITION AS A GENRE IN THREE LEGAL SYSTEMS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
This paper aims at comparing the definition of ‘trademark’ in three different legal systems – EU law, international law and US common law – in order to identify the discoursal, generic and textual characteristics of definition as a genre.
Virginia Vecchiato
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Moral judgments and validity of law [PDF]
The paper is devoted to the analysis of A. V. Nekhaev’s arguments, which substantiate the primary moral basis of legal regulations. On the basis of modern discussions in the legal philosophy, the groundlessness of arbitrary transfer of moral judgments
A. B. Didikin
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Preface: Law and Legal Linguistics in a Constant State of Transition
Legal linguistics or jurilinguistics as it has been called recently, is a relatively new field of research. The first research into the field started with analysing the content of laws (the epistemic stage).
Wagner Anne, Matulewska Aleksandra
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Skilur almenningur íslenskt lagamál?
Text comprehension of Icelandic legislative texts was studied qualitatively by interviewing 46 Icelandic speakers individually. The participants read parts of the Icelandic Inheritance Act no. 8/1962 and of the Icelandic Children’s Act no.
Ari Páll Kristinsson +3 more
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Narrativity of Legal Language in Law-Making Processes [PDF]
The paper concerns the relation between argumentative and narrative features of legal texts and the question whether legal texts can be perceived as narrative texts.
Paweł Skuczyński
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Third language acquisition: Age, proficiency and multilingualism [PDF]
This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism that is concerned with how multilinguals learn additional languages and the role that their ...
Gudmundson, Anna +9 more
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On the challenges of legal translation
This short commentary focuses on language and law and legal translation. It stresses the importance of language used in legal texts in the legal context and the complexities when more than one language is involved in interlingual and cross-cultural ...
Deborah Cao
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THE METAPHOR OF SWOBODA IN THE TREATIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
The subject of this article is a linguistic analysis of the texts of the EU Treaty of 1992, as well as of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU of 2010, with an aim to demonstrate that in these legislative acts the meanings of legal and economic terms ...
Maria Teresa LIZISOWA
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