Genre originality of legal discourse and its language realization
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26565/2227-8877-2017-85-14Keywords:
communicative situation, criteria, genre, genre model, legal discourse, lexical features, professional communicationAbstract
The article deals with the language tools that are part of legal discourse as one of the varieties of professional communication. The main lexical language features that allow to get a complete picture of language processing of legal discourse in current development law. Use presented feature models in legal discourse are considered as due to regulatory and institutional structured fixed (in the form of laws, regulations or informal agreements) sequence of speech actions that placed participants interactions in a given situation in achieving their goals. An integral feature of the legal discourse is a situation of communication in the legal sphere, along with extralinguistic factors, which determines differential linguistic signs. The situation of communication determines the main communicative installation of any type of legal discourse. Language means in the genre of criminal investigation of the legal discourse are analyzed.