Object's details: English The 'language of the law' and the 'sentiment of the language': A cultural challenge to enrich global English for comparative legal studies with national identities

Provider:Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

Description

Title:
English The 'language of the law' and the 'sentiment of the language': A cultural challenge to enrich global English for comparative legal studies with national identities
Creator:
Tieghi, Giovanna
Description:
With the spread of the language and law theory in comparative constitutional law scholarship, the hegemony of the English language has often been overestimated, to the detriment of national cultural and linguistic identities. The worldwide ramifications of this reality, and in particular the related compelling role of the global dimension of the English language (Global English), have not entirely prevented the highly valuable process of adapting English to local needs. However, this aspect is still under-explored if we consider two related issues that are quite challenging: the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which emphasizes the relationship between language and power, and the open-ended meanings of the languages spoken within national jurisdictions that encompass a variety of domains, with their multiple versions, idioms, or ‘Englishes’ of the Outer or Expanding Circle. Trying to respond to the transitional challenge of the role of English language in the field of comparative law studies, this paper elaborates some practical methodological suggestions. They are meant to promote a more pluralistic, legal-linguistic understanding of comparative constitutional law to attain an updated legal literacy in teaching (Content and Language Integrated Learning – CLIL) and research (Sentiment Legal Analysis – SLA) in the era of new technologies. Outlining the framework for the rigorous practice of interdiscursivity, it thus pursues the following normative arguments: (i) Achieving a balance between a common global register and nuances of meaning related to local areas requires a methodological design that considers context, legal discourse, and an interdisciplinary approach; (ii) Using the expanded field of SLA in constitutional law contributes to an updated investigation on English as a Court language; (iii) Taking judicial language as a case study of English-language court discourse in continental systems encourages research into the subjectivity of idiomatic and cultural expressions relating to the national identity of judicial attitudes.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Giovanna Tieghi;
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Date:
2025.09.19
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
Peer-reviewed Article
Language:
English
Source:
Comparative Legilinguistics; Vol. 63 (2025); 224-266;
Comparative Legilinguistics; Tom 63 (2025); 224-266;
2391-4491;
2080-5926
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/cl/article/view/47299/40233
Subject:
Englishes;
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL);
Sentiment Legal Analysis (SLA);
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA);
Global English for Legal Studies (GELS);
Interdiscursivity
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/cl/article/view/47299
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

Similar objects

English The 'language of the law' and the 'sentiment of the language': A cultural challenge to enrich global English for comparative legal studies with national identities

Creator:Tieghi, Giovanna

Date:2025.09.19

Type:text

Analyzing types of classroom interaction in CLIL

Creator:Papaja, Katarzyna

Date:2011.01.01

Type:text

Koncepcja czteropoziomowego kontekstu Ruth Wodak jako wyraz interdyscyplinarności w analizie dyskursu

Creator:Kopińska, Violetta

Date:2019.02.19

Type:text

English medium instruction: Comparing teacher beliefs in secondary and tertiary education

Creator:Briggs, Jessica G. | Dearden, Julie | Macaro, Ernesto

Date:2018.08.27

Type:text

Creator:Basterrechea, María | Gallardo-del-Puerto, Francisco

Date:2020.09.30

Type:text

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING AT SELECTED TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES IN POLAND

Creator:Droździał-Szelest, Krystyna | Szczuka-Dorna, Liliana

Date:2020.02.17

Type:text

Building narrative capacity in mediatized times: a study of KOD social movement in Poland

Creator:Brodzińska-Mirowska, Barbara | Wojtkowski, Łukasz

Date:2021

Type:image

Primary school students’ German and English competences in a bilingual programme before and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Creator:Steinlen, Anja | Piske, Thorsten

Date:2025.03.31

Type:text

Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych

Object's details: English The 'language of the law' and the 'sentiment of the language': A cultural challenge to enrich global English for comparative legal studies with national identities

Description

Similar objects