Nominative-cognitive features of English legal terminology

Abstract

The relevance of the research is determined by the active use of foreign language texts that serve special purposes. The practice of their teaching lags behind the theoretical achievements in this field. Moreover, the functioning of special texts in English is enhanced by the fact that they are often used in scientific discourse, for example, in abstracts of papers. At the moment, there is no single concept of translation of humanities terms, which led to the presence of several trends in translation, the main of which are free and literal interpretations. Legal terms refer to the humanitarian paradigm of knowledge, their specificity is different from the terms of technical sciences. Today, it is in the humanities that there is a trend towards their integration, which cannot but affect the composition of legal terminology. The term of one science can be used in another, this causes ambiguity of the same term, which contradicts the essence of this concept: the term must be unambiguous, precise and understandable. In this, problems also arise in the transmission of multi-valued terms. Linguists cite another reason for polysemy in legal terminology - illegal borrowing of foreign language terms. Therefore, the identification of adequate ways of translating the terms of humanitarian disciplines becomes especially relevant, as it will allow to reduce the degree of language overload with foreign language terms. The work is based on the works of domestic and foreign scientists, and the following research methods were also used: descriptive method, which includes observation, interpretation and classification of linguistic material used in the presentation of the process and results of the study, the method of definitional analysis, semantic analysis, comparative analysis, and as well as methods of generalization and typology.