LEGAL TERMINOLOGY IN IVAN AKSAKOV’S JOURNALISM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LANGUAGE REFLECTION (exemplifi ed by the words legal and legality)
- Authors: Sekiro O.O.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute for LinguisticStudies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 47, No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 40-46
- Section: RUSSIAN LANGUAGE. NATIONAL LANGUAGES OF RUSSIA
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2542-1077/article/view/294547
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.15393/uchz.art.2025.1126
- ID: 294547
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Abstract
Legal terminology plays a signifi cant role in the development of the nineteenth-century Russian vocabulary.It was regularly used by a prominent Russian Slavophile, Ivan Aksakov, whose views were shaped within theprofessional community of legal experts and directly assimilated the ideas that contributed to the development of theRussian legal tradition. So far, texts written by the Slavophiles belonging to the one of the main directions that affectedthe social and political environment in Russia from the 1840s through the 1860s have not been described by linguists.The signifi cance of Ivan Aksakov in the media landscape of the XIX century lies in his role as an author who introducedSlavophile ideas into public discourse, which, along with the active development of journalism vocabulary, determinesthe relevance of this study. This research examines the author’s interpretation of legal terminology through language reflection, which in Aksakov’s publicistic texts marks the distinction between “foreign” and “native” words in his debateswith opponents. To understand the role of language refl ection in articulating the author’s perspective on legal lexicon,the paper analyzes the semantic interactions involving the objects of language refl ection, namely, the words legal andlegality that denote the fundamental legal concepts, as well as other lexical and phraseological units and so-called “refl exives”. The fi ndings indicate that Aksakov’s use of these terms led to the emergence of new ideological connotations, closely tied to their religious and moral interpretations.
About the authors
O. O. Sekiro
Institute for LinguisticStudies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: olgasekiro@yandex.ru
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