Riy M. The genre “law” in modern German and Ukrainian (on the basis of criminal laws of Germany and Ukraine).

The dissertation is devoted to a comparative study of the genre ‘law’ in German and Ukrainian on the basis of the criminal law of Germany and Ukraine. It is genre studies within the anthropocentric paradigm that make it possible to analyse the mechanisms of language generation, functioning and interpretation in specific communicative situations. The relevance of the topic of the dissertation is due to the growing role of legal culture of citizens in public life and the need for a comparative study of the texts of laws as an important element of this process. The relevance of the study also lies in the need to improve and regulate the professional language of jurisprudence, to take into account the theoretical and practical achievements of the German legal language in order to form the appropriate Ukrainian-language professional language of law, in the genre of law in particular. The object of the study is the texts of criminal law laws of Germany and Ukraine, and the subject of its analysis is the communicative and pragmatic, linguistic and extra-linguistic features of the genre ‘law’. The corpus under study consists of the texts of criminal law laws of Germany and Ukraine (358 articles of the Criminal Code of Germany and 447 articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The scientific novelty of the obtained results is that for the first time a separate genre is analysed on the basis of the methodological principles of linguistic genreology, functional stylistics, linguistics of professional languages, legal linguistics and comparative linguistics on the material of German and Ukrainian languages; a comprehensive methodology for studying the genres of legal discourse is proposed; the correlation between the concepts of ‘genre’, ‘text’, ‘discourse’, ‘professional language’, ‘functional style’ is clarified; the legal systems of Germany and Ukraine are compared from the standpoint of legal linguistics; for the first time the genre ‘law’ is modelled on the material of criminal laws of German and Ukrainian languages, and the linguistic and extra-linguistic means of forming the genre ‘law’ in these languages are compared.