PLACE NAMES IN LEGAL ENGLISH

• Main Author: Martynenko, I.A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Marina Sokolova Publishings 2018-06-01
• Series: Russian Linguistic Bulletin
• Subjects: legal; discourse; toponym; source of law; legal document; юридический; дискурс; топоним; источник права; юридический документ
• Online Access: http://rulb.org/wp-content/uploads/wpem/pdf_compilations/2(14)/12-15.pdf

Due to the fact that lawyers’ professional language is a tool for expressing legal traditions, the toponymic units, widely and diversely represented in English legal discourse, largely reflect the sociocultural, national cultural and national legal features of the society. A continuous selection of toponymic units and thorough analysis of the material showed the existence of a wide range of use of place names in the sphere of law. The author singles out a few basic conditions that are typical for the integration of geographical names into an English-language legal terminology system. The article proposes a classification of cases of the use of toponymic units in the legal documentation, conclusions are made about the impact of non-linguistic reality on the development of legal terminology.