Comparative Legal Linguistics

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law. Using examples drawn from major and lesser legal languages it examines the major legal languages themselves beginning with Latin through German French Spanish and English. The work is a valuable resource for students researchers and practitioners in the areas of legal history and theory comparative law semiotics and linguistics. It is also of interest to legal translators and terminologists.