Наукові підходи до тлумачення юридичних термінів (на прикладі судових рішень Верховного Суду Великобританії)ud(Semantic Features of British English Legal Terms (on the Example of the UK Supreme Court Judgments))

摘要

Стаття присвячена дослідженню семантичних особливостей юридичної термінології на прикладі судових рішень Верховного Суду Великобританії. Автор аналізує визначення та ознаки юридичного терміна, його місце в загальній системі термінознавства та роль у розвитку юридичної лінгвістики. Здійснено семантичний аналіз юридичних термінів, виявлених у судових промовах.udThe article is devoted to the research of semantic features of legal terminology on the example of judgments of the United Kingdom Supreme Court. The author has analyzed definitions and features of a legal term, its place in the general terminology science system and the role in legal linguistics development. Besides, the examples of semantic features of legal terms and reasons of their emergence have been depicted. The types of legal terms of the British English according to theudsemantic features have been classified. The semantic analysis of legal terms revealed in the UK Supreme Court judgment shas been conducted. Tak ing into account that the legal text is the main element of the legal discourse that is the reason of social and legal development, the author takes into consideration the fact that legal texts stem from professional lawyers who create those texts paying attention to the peculiarities of community functioning. The fact that law status is very high and its language determines the culture level of law creators is undeniable. Functioning as a cognitive and ordering element, legal texts obtain the features of an academic text as well as the features of instruction. Therefore, this has served as a profound source for the linguistic research. Having studied the semantic peculiarities of British English legal terms, approximatelyud300 lexemes have been analyzed. Consequently, legal terms have been divided into intentional and extensional, and into polysemantic, monosemantic and nominatve. This classification has provided an opportunity to study a semantic derivation of legal terminology in detail, and has contributed to the appropriate usage of terms within legal discourse.)