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the language of law
the language of administrative law
the language of criminal procedure law
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Back in the 18thcentury, structures with phrasal verbs (FVG) were determined as a featureof German technical language. These constructs are still present in the language of law. Although the administrative language is considered a part of the legal language, there are discursive differences between specific(sub)languages in the field of law. One can speak of the discourses of justice, of criminal law, of international law, etc. It is the language of administrative law that citizens as lay people are most often confronted with, and it is often criticized as "a bureaucracy language", or "the paper style". The aim of this paper is to examine the structures with phrasal verbs frequently occurring in the language of German administrative law and compare them with those in German criminal procedure law. First partofthecorpusisbuiltbyphrasalverbstructuresexcerptedfromfollowing German laws: Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz, Verwaltungsvollstreckungsgesetz, Verwaltungskostengesetz. In order to explore potential discursive differences between specific languages in the field of law, the collected examples are compared with the most frequent phrasal verb structures of the German criminal procedure law. For that purpose, the Criminal Procedure Code (StPO) of 1987 (last amended in 2015) is used as the second part of the researched corpus. In the concluding part of the paper, the authors draw conclusions based on the analysis carried out. The results of this study can be of assistance to law students in mastering German legal terminology, to all linguists dealing with German language of law and especially to all translators and interpreters from the German and into the German language.References
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