VERBALISATION OF THE LEGAL CATEGORY “DIGITAL RIGHTS” IN GERMAN-LANGUAGE LEGAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

In the paper the authors examine the verbalisation of the legal category “digital rights” in German-language legal discourse. The verbalisation of the above-mentioned legal category is the result of the reflection of conceptual knowledge about the new legal institution of German civil law in the linguistic picture of the world. The study is conducted from the perspective of the linguistic and cognitive approach, namely the description of the legal category “digital rights” on the material of those linguistic means that objectify, verbalize and represent a systematized form of expression of legal knowledge in a certain period of its formation and further development. The analysis of the linguistic means of verbalisation of the category of “digital rights” characterises this category as a dynamic unit of thought due to the fact that the legal institution of “digital rights” is in its formative stage in the German legal system.