LEGAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TERMINOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF TRANSLATION OF NORMATIVE DOCUMENTS

Abstract

The present paper reveals a functional peculiarity of a legal term based on its interaction with the legal culture. The author carries out a legal and linguistic analysis of functional legal lexis as a prerequisite for achieving the equivalence of legal translation. The research is based on the analysis of scientific literature and specialized thesauri, logical-semantic modeling, descriptive and comparative methods. The legal term under the study is considered as the most informative element of a normative text. It has been proved that the proper lexical interpretation requires not only linguistic, but also comparative legal expertise of the inner concepts, comparison of legal phenomena and categories adopted in Russian and foreign law, determination of similarities and differences. As part of this research, some lexical units of the terminological system of the English language have been analyzed; their semantic decoding within the text or apart from it has been carried out in order to find the proper equivalent in the target language.