General linguistics
Published 2018-06-27
Keywords
- lacuna,
- lacunarity,
- interlingual lacunae,
- law terminology,
- ethnographic gaps
- linguistic gaps ...More
Abstract
The paper is devoted to the study of interlingual lacunarity in the field of law terminology. The research, conducted on the material of the English and Ukrainian languages, made it possible to reveal ethnographic gaps, the existence of which is due to the difference in legal systems operating in certain language communities, as well as to the definite law tradition. The comparative analysis of the nominations in these languages confirmed the presence of linguistic gaps that do not depend on extra-language realities directly, but are the consequence of linguistic asymmetry.