Abstract

In the framework of the empirical turn in international law, international lawyers are increasingly turning to specific linguistic theories to gain insights into language-related processes in international law, such as interpretation or law-making. The present article addresses these current, selective approaches by offering a broad overview and taxonomy of the most prominent and relevant directions of research in linguistics. It addresses in turn discourse analysis and text linguistics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics and etymology, lexicography, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics, sociolinguistics and forensic linguistics, loosely following the phases of the ‘life cycle’ of international law in which they could most fruitfully be used to study and practise international law.

中文翻译：

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国际法和语言学：一个跨学科难题

摘要

在国际法经验性转变的框架内，国际律师越来越多地转向特定的语言理论，以获取对国际法中与语言有关的过程的洞见，例如解释或立法。本文通过对语言学研究中最突出和最相关的方向进行广泛概述和分类，来解决这些当前的选择性方法。它依次解决了话语分析和文本语言学，语法，语义，语用学，历史语言学和词源，词汇学，语料库语言学和计算语言学，社会语言学和法证语言学的问题，大致遵循了国际法“生命周期”的各个阶段。可以最有效地用于研究和实践国际法。