Abstract

The article concentrates on solving the problem of commonplace interpretation of fragments of legal texts, the main characteristics of which is the presence of an inevitable multiplicity of interpretation options. The hypothesis of this study was the assumption that average native speakers understand legal statements ambiguously when reading and interpreting them. To obtain the evidence of linguistic consciousness in the ordinary interpretation of legal statements, the method of linguistic test is used; average native speakers of the Russian language (1st and 2nd year students). Through the application of this method, a fundamentally new result was obtained – the strategies of everyday interpretation of legal statements were identified and described: contextually-oriented, contextually-undirected and cognitively-oriented.

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