Abstract
As a rule, legal genres are subdivided into three large thematic groups: “Legislation” (laws, regulations, instructions, acts, orders), “Case law” (judicial decisions, appeals, protocols, court orders and court inquiries), “Official documentation” (official correspondence, reports, contracts). This research focuses on the pragmalinguistic and linguo-stylistic analysis of German legislative texts. The authors describe the characteristics of legislative genres and single out their general and special language functions. The relevance of the article is based on the fact that in Russia and abroad there are few linguistic papers on the analysis of legislative genre and law texts. In the meantime, the given research direction is highly prospective for interdisciplinary studies. The authors argue that the function of nomination, the function of message, the function of influence and the function of communication are vividly manifested in legislative genre via multilevel language means. A pragmatic analysis of the legal norms of the German legislative texts shows that the latter are characterized by imperative and dispositive legal norms, while recommendatory legal norms for the texts of German laws are less typical. The methodological base of research includes contextual and functional analysis, linguo-stylistic techniques as well as descriptive and linguo-pragmatic methods of analysis.
Highlights
The tool perspective of computer systems is something that is frequently used in the computer and information science area
The focus is on the relationship and the interface between the subject and the object, and not on human communication and the intersubjective relationship between senders and interpreters of information using information systems (IS)
In the conventional view of usability the ultimate goal with the use of the computer system is to contribute to the satisfaction, effectiveness and efficiency of the user which are criteria defined in this way in the ISO 9241-11 [11] standard: Effectiveness: the accuracy and completeness with which the users achive certain goals
Summary
The tool perspective of computer systems is something that is frequently used in the computer and information science area. There are some limitations with the conventional view of usability [see e.g. 9, 10], especially if we focus on information systems (IS) One of these limitations is that the discussion of usability is focused on the interaction between the user and the computer system [4]. In the conventional view of usability the ultimate goal with the use of the computer system is to contribute to the satisfaction, effectiveness and efficiency of the user which are criteria defined in this way in the ISO 9241-11 [11] standard: Effectiveness: the accuracy and completeness with which the users achive certain goals. This should be achived in an efficient way for the user
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