Właściwości stylistyczne poradnictwa prawnego w Internecie w aspekcie kulturowym
Lexical specificity of legal consulting in cultural aspect

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the highest frequency lexical resources within the area of onlinelegal counselling. The research corpus included the content of discussions held aroundspecific problems of legal and judicial character and the attempts to find practicalsolutions to those problems, found on the Internet forums. The texts in question wereclassified here as utterances of a legal commentary character and stemming from thelegal and judicial language, in opposition to strictly legal communication, which isnormative and depersonalized in its nature.This paper takes a closer look at the act of counselling as a linguistic action in bothPolish and German linguistics, as well as the characteristics of a specific-contentInternet discussion forum as a separate, well-defined genre of text functioning withinthe world-wide-web and oriented towards the exchange of views and gatheringinformation on a specific topic. Besides their knowledge-broadening functions, theseforums are nowadays more frequently becoming the sites for initiating social contactsand interactions.The paper is cultural-contrastive in its character, as the analysed material comes fromtwo parallel sources: Polish and German texts. It aims at identifying discrepancies aswell as regularities in online legal advice, including specific lexical items. Theconclusions are likely to serve as the basis for defining a specific “linguistic realm” ofthe Internet forum users in both languages in question, as well as contribute toidentifying some current trends in cross-cultural communication based on modern toolsand social media.

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