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Current Topics

An indicative list of research topics to be undertaken in jurilinguistics in Uzbekistan, recommended for master’s, PhD and DSc research.

85 topics

Law and language: general theory8

  1. The interplay of law and language in building a democratic state governed by the rule of law in Uzbekistan
  2. Legal language and its linguo-legal features
  3. Legal language and problems of its classification
  4. The relationship between the standard literary language and legal language
  5. Logical and linguistic methods of formulating legal norms
  6. The unity of form and content in legal norms
  7. Legal phraseology and its relation to the phraseology of the standard language
  8. The legislative style of the modern Uzbek literary language

The language of legal norms by branch13

  1. Linguo-legal features of constitutional law norms
  2. Linguo-legal features of administrative law norms
  3. Linguo-legal features of civil law norms
  4. Linguo-legal features of criminal law norms
  5. Linguo-legal features of land law norms
  6. Linguo-legal features of agrarian law norms
  7. Linguo-legal features of labour law norms
  8. Linguo-legal features of social security law norms
  9. Linguo-legal features of environmental law norms
  10. Linguo-legal features of financial law norms
  11. Linguo-legal features of civil procedure law norms
  12. Linguo-legal features of criminal procedure law norms
  13. Linguo-legal features of commercial procedure law norms

Legal terminology14

  1. International legal terms and their influence on the national legal language
  2. Constitutional law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  3. Administrative law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  4. Civil law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  5. Criminal law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  6. Land law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  7. Agrarian law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  8. Labour law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  9. Social security law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  10. Environmental law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  11. Financial law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  12. Civil procedure law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  13. Criminal procedure law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation
  14. Commercial procedure law terminology: problems of unification and standardisation

Language and style of subordinate legislation13

  1. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in constitutional law
  2. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in administrative law
  3. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in civil law
  4. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in criminal law
  5. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in land law
  6. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in agrarian law
  7. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in labour law
  8. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in social security law
  9. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in environmental law
  10. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in financial law
  11. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in civil procedure law
  12. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in criminal procedure law
  13. Grammatical and stylistic features of subordinate legislation in commercial procedure law

Legal speech and courtroom rhetoric6

  1. Legal speech and its distinctive features
  2. Legal speech and its relation to general literary speech
  3. Legal speech and problems of its classification
  4. Courtroom rhetoric and its linguo-legal features
  5. The prosecutor’s speech and its linguo-legal foundations
  6. The defence lawyer’s speech and its linguo-legal foundations

The language of religious legal texts7

  1. The language of Sharia norms and its linguo-logical features
  2. The language of the Holy Qur’an: lexical and stylistic features
  3. The language of the Holy Qur’an: grammatical and stylistic features
  4. The structure of legal norms in the Holy Qur’an
  5. The language of the Hadith: lexical and stylistic features
  6. The language of the Hadith: grammatical and stylistic features
  7. The legal and logical structure of the Hadith

Legal translation studies9

  1. Problems of legal translation studies in Uzbekistan
  2. Legislative translation (English–Uzbek texts)
  3. Legislative translation (French–Uzbek texts)
  4. Legislative translation (German–Uzbek texts)
  5. Legislative translation (Russian–Uzbek texts)
  6. Legislative translation (Japanese–Uzbek texts)
  7. Legislative translation (Chinese–Uzbek texts)
  8. Legislative translation (Korean–Uzbek texts)
  9. Legislative translation (Spanish–Uzbek texts)

Jurilinguistics: artificial intelligence and digital technologies

Jurilinguistic expertise of digital and AI-generated texts5

  1. Assessing authorship and legal liability in artificial intelligence and neural networks
  2. Verbal offences on social media: linguistic markers of insult, defamation and hate in online discourse
  3. A jurilinguistic study of smileys and emoji in messengers
  4. Interpreting visual devices as contractual obligations or threats in judicial practice
  5. Linguistic expertise of psychological pressure and harassment in the digital space

Linguistic analysis of extremist and terrorist texts1

  1. Criteria for distinguishing appeals and advocacy from destructive texts

Manipulative speech technologies1

  1. Linguistic models of mind manipulation in economic crimes (fraud, financial pyramids) and political discourse

Speech behaviour in corruption offences1

  1. Jurilinguistic assessment of covert offers to give or take a bribe

Legislative drafting and the interpretation of legal texts2

  1. Identifying ambiguities in the text of normative legal acts
  2. Linguistic flaws in legislation and their impact on judicial practice

The transformation of legal terms2

  1. Systematising emerging concepts in digital law, crypto-assets and blockchain
  2. Jurilinguistic assessment of how comprehensible legal documents are to ordinary citizens

The state language and comparative jurilinguistics3

  1. Jurilinguistic aspects of state-language legislation
  2. Breaches of literary-language norms in official records management and the legal regulation of advertising texts
  3. Problems of legal translation: the equivalence of legal concepts in translating international treaties and conventions