LANGUAGE AND LAW: SOME QUESTIONS OF THEORY
Discussing the essence of law, lawyers at much would agree that the difference between ‘legal’ and ‘non-legal’ lies not within the nature of an event or a doing as such, but in what legal consequences may follow the one or another event or action. The ‘language of law’ is composed and perceived by a human (person) in a similar way as ‘natural language’: a human (person) is in a certain way designed to speak - and is targeted for law - because (s)he is born not only in Nature, but also in the bosom of Society, which attaches and attributes him to itself. Remove the Society, - and there would remain foundations to learn, for example, to walk (if survived) - but never to learn the language. Recognizing that the language is non-instinctive way of communicating thoughts, feelings, and desires through a system of symbols, the language of law is a way for Society to evaluate events and(or) human actions through a system of specially designed symbols based on natural language, and at later stages, the language of law is one of the ways of management in the Society.