INTERDISCURSIVITY OF TERMS IN GERMAN-LANGUAGE LEGAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

In the article the author considers such characteristic of legal discourse as interdiscursivity and analyses cases of the use of terms of German-language legal discourse with reference to the term MORGENGABE outside the legal discourse. The attempted diachronic study of the functioning of the term MORGENGABE in various German-language discourses shows that there are no clear boundaries between such institutional discourses as legal, political, and modern mass media discourse, and demonstrates their intersection and interaction at the level of terminology. The conceptual content of a legal term is the semantic basis on which the use of the term outside the legal discourse is constructed, taking into account the context of political discourse and/or mass media discourse. The conceptual meaning of a legal term does not remain unchanged in other institutional discourses, which is reflected in the media texts and consolidated in lexicographic sources. The analysis of political and media contexts allows us to verify and clarify the meaning of a legal term beyond the discourse of its origin and indicates the possible interdiscursiveness of the latter.