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legal proceedings. Because the imperfection of legal language negatively 
affects the formation of legal consciousness, contributes to legal nihilism 
manifestations (Liubchenko, 2012).
There are two opposing views as to the language of law: some researchers 
believe that the language of law cannot be dened as a special one, because 
it is close to the common language in the eld of vocabulary. But the other 
distinguish the language of law as a professional language that is as an 
alternate of common language to dene special subjects, concepts, serving 
for  communication  within  one  professional  group.  In  Ukrainian  science, 
a new nature of legal terminology study was formed in connection with 
the formation of legal linguistics as one of the relevant areas of study of 
the general principles of the language of law functioning in the modern 
world. To form and dene any scientic eld, it is important to determine 
the subject of its study. Pradid (2001) emphasizes that the subject of legal 
linguistics is to study the role and functions of language and speech in the 
jurisdictional process both historically and at the present stage.
Language  used  in  the  elds  of  law  and  law  enforcement,  legal 
proceedings and notary, legal documentation, legal science and education, 
legal information and legal journalism is the subject of study of legal 
linguistics. It denes the functions and specics of the language of law, its 
main varieties and genres, the system of rules for making and interpretation 
of  legal  texts.  Special  attention  is  paid  to  language  issues  of  law-making 
and law enforcement. In this connection the following applied directions of 
scientic and linguistic analysis of legal categories as legislative stylistics, 
legislative technique, textology, legal terminology, syntax of legislative text, 
legal hermeneutics, linguistic examination of bills, expert examination 
assessment of conict texts, in particular in documentary and information 
disputes are being developed (Piholkin, 1990).
M.I. Liubchenko (2012) notes that one of the important aspects of the 
language  of  law  which  lacks  studies  is  legal  terminology,  the  accuracy, 
clarity and intelligibility of which conditions the state of the language of law 
in general. However, to reduce legal linguistics to the interpretation of texts 
of normative and legal acts is incorrect. One of the issues of legal linguistics 
is the question of interpretation of the texts of laws. A special place among a 
number of legal linguistics’ directions development is occupied by the issues 
related to the study of the quality of court speeches, such as the speeches of 
the prosecutors, judges, and lawyers.
The language of  law  is characterized by  a  set  of certain linguistic  and 
stylistic  parameters,  which  also  serve  as  requirements  for  modern  legal 
text at the same time. They are: formality, clarity, accuracy, unambiguity, 
completeness,  logical  sequence,  argumentation,  exactness  of  structure, 
directive  nature  of  legal  requirements,  codication,  generalization,  sever 
normativeness  at  all  language  levels,  a  high  degree  of  standardization,