Actualization of the German Language Status in the Absence of the State Language Category in the German Legislation
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Abstract
This article addresses the issue of the representation of the German language status in legislative texts of the Federal Republic of Germany in the absence of the category «state language». The research methodology is based on the E. S. Kubryakova's understanding of the nominative aspect of the speech activity, who distinguishes two ways of designating objects: both through nomination and predication. The aim of this paper is to determine main functions of linguistic expressions, which regulate the role of the German language in legislation (nomination and / or predication), and language means of their representation. Research objectives: 1) to make a selection of fragments of normative legal acts on the federal level related to language legislation; 2) to select the nominations and / or predications used to actualize the leading role of the German language; 3) to study the structure of selected nominations and / or predications. The material of this paper is presented by excerpts from the Fiscal code, Authentication law, Court constitution law, Law on the protection of brands and other marks, Law on alternative dispute resolution in consumer matters, Law on the residence, employment and integration of foreigners in Germany, Law on the supervision of insurance companies, Trading law, Disability equality act, Commercial Code. In the theoretical part of the work, definitions of the categories «state language», «official language», «nomination» and «predication» are presented. The practical part of the paper addresses the analysis of excerpts from federal legislation. In conclusion, the results of the issue are presented: the leading role of the German language in the legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany is updated through nominations and predications; nominations are represented both by separate compound words and by sequences of words syntactically related to each other; predications are represented by semantic verbs in the form Präsens Indikativ (in conditional clauses) as well as several types of modal constructions.
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