Law for Elites

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14220%2F19%3A00108047" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14220/19:00108047 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/slgr.2019.59.issue-1/slgr-2019-0028/slgr-2019-0028.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/slgr.2019.59.issue-1/slgr-2019-0028/slgr-2019-0028.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2019-0028" target="_blank" >10.2478/slgr-2019-0028</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Law for Elites

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

It has been claimed that to fully understand the law, one must know the language of normative texts and the relevant rules governing its use. It usually means that normative texts do not seem to be comprehensible enough to persons without formal legal training. In an on-going research project, we are focusing on the process of writing texts of legal regulations, conducting semi-structured interviews with those involved in drafting normative texts. In this paper, we focus on lawyers as a speech community of legal language speakers and we discuss why and to what extent this speech community may be considered an elite in a society. We show that competent usage of special – legal – language in regulating the whole society may help create a special group of persons wielding an important segment of cultural capital: the knowledge of legal language, and, in consequence, competent knowledge of law. Given the fact that this language is used to exercise (legal) power in a society, lawyers appear to be in the advantageous position of an elite. We argue that those who draft new legal texts reproduce writing rules and customs, constantly re-creating legal language as a language mostly incomprehensible to a non-competent speaker, and, in consequence, creating lawyers as an elite speech community.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Law for Elites

Popis výsledku anglicky

It has been claimed that to fully understand the law, one must know the language of normative texts and the relevant rules governing its use. It usually means that normative texts do not seem to be comprehensible enough to persons without formal legal training. In an on-going research project, we are focusing on the process of writing texts of legal regulations, conducting semi-structured interviews with those involved in drafting normative texts. In this paper, we focus on lawyers as a speech community of legal language speakers and we discuss why and to what extent this speech community may be considered an elite in a society. We show that competent usage of special – legal – language in regulating the whole society may help create a special group of persons wielding an important segment of cultural capital: the knowledge of legal language, and, in consequence, competent knowledge of law. Given the fact that this language is used to exercise (legal) power in a society, lawyers appear to be in the advantageous position of an elite. We argue that those who draft new legal texts reproduce writing rules and customs, constantly re-creating legal language as a language mostly incomprehensible to a non-competent speaker, and, in consequence, creating lawyers as an elite speech community.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50501 - Law

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA17-14903S" target="_blank" >GA17-14903S: Metodologie empirického zjišťování využití interpretačních metod v tvorbě práva</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

ISSN

0860-150X

e-ISSN

2199-6059

Svazek periodika

59

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

PL - Polská republika

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

47-68

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85078472036