LEGAL TERMS IN SPECIALIZED ENGLISH DICTIONARIES: PROBLEMS AND FEATURES OF FIXATION

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of codification and standardization of English legal terminological units, since at this stage compilers of dictionaries are inevitably faced with numerous difficulties. The reason for this is the impossibility to satisfy all the requirements put forward to the term and, as a consequence, the imperfection of terminological units and the reflection of these imperfections in the corresponding terminological dictionaries. The objective of the study is to identify and classify the main inconsistencies with the requirements for the term found at the level of expression, content, and also from the point of view of functioning in a number of specialized terminological dictionaries of law published in the UK and the USA. This article is of interest both for linguistics in general and for lexicography and terminography in particular, and may also be useful in teaching languages for specific purposes.