LEXICAL PROPERTIES OF LEGAL SPEECH

Abstract

Every profession, every occupation, for example, architecture, journalism, medicine, sports, has its own characteristics, that is, special language features. These features include phonological, semantic, syntactic, lexical, and graphological levels. These rules are professional. The purpose of this article is to show the professional direction of English legal discourse. However, we limit our analysis to the methodological features that are reflected in the lexical features of the legal language. Since most of the words in legal discourse refer only to the field of law, we can call these terms technical. The range of legal technical words in English is as large as the number of fields related to the law. Examples of these are "burglary", "precedent", "claimant", "actus reus", "mens rea", "indemnity", "recission" and others.