法律术语标准化刍议——以民商法律部门为例

Standardizaton of Legal Terms——Department of civil Law and Commercial Law as an Example

术语标准化是术语工作的重要内容,随着法律语言学研究的不断展开和深入,越来越多的学者认识到法律术语标准化对研究法律术语、统一我国社会主义法制的重要意义。法律术语的选定和命名:1.坚持单名单义性;2.通俗性与学理性相结合、注重学理性;3.合乎本族语言习惯与稳定性相结合、注重稳定性。在对法律术语的定义进行描述时,需要注意语义法定原则和简洁性原则。同时,在进行标准化过程中,还可以对法律术语进行类别性划分,以方便法律工作者的使用。

Terminological standardization is the important content of terminological work. With the constant development and deepening of the research on legal language, more and more scholars corns to know the significance of the standardization of legal terms to the research in its field and to the unification of socialist legal system, The selection and nomenclature should ： 1. persist in one sense for one term ; 2. combine popularity with scientific principle laying emphasis on the latter; and 3. connect national lan- guage habit to stability putting stress on the latter. In describing a legal term, attention should be paid to the prescriptive principle as well as that of succinctness. In the course of standardization, it is preferable to classify the terms so as to facilitate the application.