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Functional Beauty of Legal Language

Author(s): Maria Teresa Lizisowa
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: legal language;history of language;moral character of legal language;logical structure of a sentence;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a stylistic analysis of legal language by combining moral issues with the logical use of linguistic signs – text, sentences and words. Particular emphasis was placed on the prescriptive nature of the preamble and on the logical structure of a sentence in legal language. The article also reflects human reflection on the beauty of the text, which is based on observation of the world and results from the need to arrange it according to cherished values. In this systemic harmony of content and form, there is the moral aspect of creating legislative texts in order to ensure security and just rights for society, as well as their functional beauty. The article presents numerous examples of the relationship between the morality and beauty of legal language through the prism of the content of legal acts.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 83
  • Page Range: 114-134
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish