Aspecte privind specificitatea terminologiei juridice
Aspects of Specific Legal Terminology

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to develop the idea that linguistic and pragmatic criteria contribute to the recognition of the specificity of a specialized language, in our case the legal-administrative one. Starting from the principle that the identification of a terminology is related to the recognition of the nature and purposes of those who use it, in the legal field it becomes evident in the expression of the normativity of the law. We refer to the basic conceptions of the Speech Act Theory, as well as to the general foundations of legal science. The minicorpus set up to demonstrate the validity of the idea, consists of legislative texts from the New Civil Code and the Code of Civil Procedure, on civil status documents, especially those related to marriage. We will focus on performative verbs, with emphasis on their pragmatic implications, linguistic aspects that imprint the imperative character of what is communicated. It is concluded that the performative verb is a primary factor in the process of updating the specificity of terms in legal language.

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