The Legal Language: Its Definitions and Applications in the Arabs Laws

Adil Elshiekh Abdalla Ahmed(1*),


(1) Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University-Brunei Darussalam
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


This study deals with the definition of the legal language, its characteristics, its patterns and relationship to the general language, with the application of that in the Arabic language. The study paid attention to its applications in the Arabic language due to laxity of this type of language in the area of teaching Arabic. The study follows the descriptive analytical approach. The data of the legal document subjected to analysis and collected randomly from Arab legal and legislative publications. As the study shows, the legal language characterized with certain features that turned it to be different from the rest of the other types of language. These distinctive elements include amongst others: strangeness, ambiguity, excessive length of the sentence. Consequently, it seems to be too difficult and incomprehensible for those who are not specialized in laws, even though it is of the same normal language, and is subject to its phonemic, grammatical and semantic rules.


: تتناول هذه الدراسة تعري٠اللغة القانونية وخصائصها وأنماطها وعلاقتها باللغة العامة مع تطبيق ذلك ÙÙŠ اللغة العربية. وقد اهتمت الدراسة بتطبيقاتها ÙÙŠ اللغة العربية بسبب تراخي هذا النوع من اللغة ÙÙŠ مجال تدريس اللغة العربية. تتبع الدراسة المنهج الوصÙÙŠ التحليلي. يتم جمع بيانات الوثيقة القانونية الخاضعة للتحليل بشكل عشوائي من المطبوعات القانونية والتشريعية العربية. كما توضح الدراسة ØŒ تتميز اللغة القانونية بسمات معينة جعلتها مختلÙØ© عن باقي أنواع اللغات الأخرى. تشمل هذه العناصر المميزة من بين أمور أخرى: الغرابة ØŒ والغموض ØŒ وطول الجملة المÙرط. وبالتالي ØŒ يبدو أنه صعب للغاية وغير Ù…Ùهوم بالنسبة لأولئك غير المتخصصين ÙÙŠ القوانين ØŒ على الرغم من أنها من Ù†Ùس اللغة العادية ØŒ وتخضع لقواعدها الصوتية والنحوية والدلالية.


Keywords


Legal language, private language, law, Arabic language

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