The Language of Civil Law: Some Approaches to Research Directions, Specific Features and Innovations

Abstract

The development of civil circulation also determines the development of the language of civil law, the bearer of which is the widest range of legal entities, including individuals and legal entities. The significance and relevance of the study is confirmed by the fact that the language of Civil Law defines the following sublanguages: the sublanguage of the constituent documents of a legal entity; the sublanguage of contracts, including a power of attorney, which, in accordance with Civil Law, is a unilateral transaction; sublanguage of documents formalizing individual civil rights (to property, to protected results of professional activity). Innovations in the language of civil legislation are largely due to the expansion of the range of objects of Civil Law regulation against the backdrop of digitalization and informatization of modern society. In this article, the authors propose an approach to studying the language of Civil Law, which includes the complementarity of linguistic and legal research methods. In order to identify and study lexical innovations in the field of civil legislation, a description of frames was used, which represent an hierarchy of interacting elements.