@article{Sushko-Bezdenezhnykh Mariia_2020, title={Sushko-Bezdenezhnykh Mariia. Lexical organisation of German federal constitutions in diachrony}, volume={9}, url={https://tractatus.sumdu.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/192}, abstractNote={<p>German constitutional discourse has two addressees: a professional one (lawyers) and a non-professional<br>one (commoners), therefore typical lexical features of German law discourse undergo significant modifications in<br>constitutions. Pragmatically, all constitutions aim at general comprehensibility that calls forth such invariant<br>features of their lexical organization as the avoidance of long compound words, special terminology, loanwords;<br>the presence of attitudinal words, and even some figurativeness.<br>Such lexical features as evaluativeness, methaphoricity, and euphemisms demonstrate diachronic variations.<br>Evaluative words are present in PKV, VDR, WRV and (especially) in constitutions of GDR, and lack in the modern<br>Basic Law. The figurativeness is an archaic notion and «fades away» in diachrony, whereas the number of<br>euphemisms grows.<br>VDR and Basic Law are most professionally-aimed that manifests itself in the increased use of loanwords, law<br>terminology, and long compounds.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Philological Treatises}, author={Sushko-Bezdenezhnykh Mariia}, year={2020}, month={Mar.}, pages={58–66} }