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Ljbj Published in LSP Professional Communication Volume Number October - ISSN - ? DSFF LSP Centre Origins and Use of English Legal Terms through History Anne Wagner CERCLE équipe VolTer Vocabulaire Lexique Terminologie et LARJ Laboratoire de Recherches Ju

Published in LSP Professional Communication Volume Number October - ISSN - ? DSFF LSP Centre Origins and Use of English Legal Terms through History Anne Wagner CERCLE équipe VolTer Vocabulaire Lexique Terminologie et LARJ Laboratoire de Recherches Juridiques Université du Littoral - Côte d ? Opale France Introduction English justice has long been perceived by many who have experienced it and many more who have not as highly technical inadequate inaccessible and seemingly unconnected to everyday life Gridel Without the help of specialists in law lay persons are often unable to understand legal procedure and legal language Indeed the latter has a peculiar tenacity an ability to achieve stability within changing social and economic conditions Gény However the impression it radiates is one of conservatism rigidity Wagner b and uniformity for the social structure penetrates into the architecture of the English language of the law Carbonnier That is why every past and present society has had its own knowledge of words and many have created or adapted words in order to re ect their particular standards and expectations attributed to Hobbes The French lawyer Gény considered that law has its own living reality Gény which is highly dependent upon context Consequently English legal discourse reveals a complex network of interactions between individuals and their environment Furthermore a linguistic insecurity emerges as soon as someone is analysing an earlier cultural notion So legal language has to be construed within a speci ?c period of time The interpreter is then confronted with ??a web closely woven around production ? Schauer - Aitchison - which Eco describes as a multilevelled maze representing any di ?erent legal situations This is a revised paper presented at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences IUAS Congress at Florence Italy July th ?? th http www icaes orence com CArticle by Anne Wagner Legal language is then a complex and interesting melting pot of intrinsic and extrinsic in uences coming from cultural practices which evolve within the spacetime of modernity So wherever one turns individuals have maintained written and hidden proof of this inheritance The only way to decipher this language is through an analysis of its often ??silent ? historical and social dimensions Hall ? s concept of ??silent language ? is worth mentioning here Culture acts directly and profoundly upon behaviours and the mechanisms which link them are often untold and located far beyond the voluntary control of an individual Hall While examples may be found in English law lay people or even lawyers have not found a ready solution even though there have been many attempts Historical and social dimensions Sir Francis Bacon explained the multi- cultural origins of these Laws of England through an analysis of the deep and complex English historical elaboration It is true they are mixt as our language compounded of British Roman Saxon Danish Norman Customs And as our language is so much the richer so the laws are the more complete Mellinko ? This quotation shows how