Legal Linguistics

Author: Liu Hongying
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book adopts a philosophical perspective on law and linguistic methods to conduct a comprehensive analysis and positioning of professional language phenomena in lawmaking, legal research, and legal practice. It summarizes the generation, application, and operational rules of the professional language symbol system, elaborates on the practical significance and cultural value of this language system. By systematically exploring and grasping the nature, functions, and contextual application characteristics of legal language, the author generalizes its statutory rules and customary rules, and moderately analyzes the gains and losses in its application. The book is divided into two main parts: the fundamental theories of forensic linguistics and the applied system of legal language, comprising 14 chapters that interpret related content in an orderly and hierarchical manner. The fundamental attitude throughout the book is to focus on the operational rules of legal language and respect its factual and academic rationality. At the same time, it employs comparative methods from multiple angles to discern the superiority and inferiority of language quality.