The impact of law and language as interactive patterns

• Author: Marina Kaishi
• Pages: 134-138

Vol. 2 No. 2

July 2016

Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania

ISSN 2410-3918

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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Theimpactoflawandlanguageasinteractivepaerns

Marina Kaishi

Abstract

EverycountryhasadoptedacertainlawpaernThishasanimpactonthelanguageexpres-

sion and the relevant adopted terminology. It can be tracked by examining and describing the

lexical choices and the use of featuring structures, which form parallelisms in similar systems.

Beforeproceeding withtheir linguisticdescription itisnecessary toexplain thedierences

that exist between Greek-, French-, German-, Albanian law systems. It will be evident that

theyhavesomepointsincommonbutatthesametimetheydieratagreatextentintheway

of conceptualizing the system. I shall use the Constitution as the basic law and a safe reference

point for an explicit comparison.

Terminology plays an important role in explaining these systems. The law & language are

interactivepaernsWealreadyhaveaEuropeanlegallanguagebutitistimeforamoreco-

herentEuropeanwidelegallanguageThelinguisticmaershaveadirectcontactwithjudicial

casesInsideEUtheusageofdierentlanguagesisoneofthemainobstaclesoftheintegration

processThen again accordingtoEU it creates aspecic problem for theEuropeanjudges

translators and interpreters. So in order to achieve a co-usage of the language we need to

developacurriculuminordertouseacoherentterminologyandlinguisticpaernsToputa

standard for the law language, used in the EU, we should follow a legal harmonization that is

achieved through harmonized terminology inside EU. The right usage of the language and its

terminology should be understood as a standardization process. Also European Union policy

is of great importance because it informs us about language policy and how to deal with it.

AtlastwemustknowthatEUconsistsofmillionpeoplefromdierentculturesandback-

grounds. In this sense it can be said that EU is truly a multilingual institution that reinforces

theidealofasinglecommunitywithdierentlanguagesanddierentcultures

Keywords:LawAlbanialanguageimpactpaern

Introduction

The special way of every country to function, enables us to compare legal systems. In

thiswaywedistinguishtheirsimilaritiesbuteventheirdierencesThesedierences

arenotdistinguishedonlyintheconceptofstatefunctioningbuteveninthespecic

terminology that they use. Law and language had always been and already are

interacting partners. In order to express our ideas while using a certain language

terminologyhelpsusalotandthisnotjustusingdierentvocabularybutcreating

acurriculumwhichwillenableustousethespecicterminologyinacertaineld

The Comparison of Albanian System with the Greek System

In both these systems prevails the principle of division of powers. Therefore, in

both systems we nd legislative executive and judiciary power Both states are

parliamentary republics and the constitution is the fundamental law of the state. The