title: Linguistic ambiguity and vagueness in Russian legal texts
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Blinova, Olga V.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Belov, Sergei A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-01-21T12:27:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-01-21T12:27:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Blinova, Olga V., Sergei A. Belov. 2020. “Linguistic ambiguity and vagueness in Russian legal texts”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 4: 774–812.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2020.401
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/22639
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In Russian legal texts there are many various language-based phenomena identified by lawyers
  as “cases of indeterminacy.” Looking at these phenomena from a linguistic point of view allows
  one to offer their meaningful classification. This article presents such a classification. It
  is based on the traditional distinction between ambiguity (we discuss only lexical, structural,
  and referential ambiguity) and vagueness, namely: vagueness in the narrow sense, fuzziness
  (we distinguish between referential fuzziness, classificatory fuzziness, and lexical fuzzy expressions
  including hedges, fuzzy quantifiers etc.), and lack of specification. In addition to
  the classification itself, the article provides some semantic tests and a variety of examples that
  illustrate the different types of ambiguity and vagueness, including those from Russian legal
  texts. We particularly argue that the cases of syntactic and referential ambiguity are periodically
  encountered in Russian language of law. Among them, for example, the cases of coordination
  ambiguity, the cases of relative clause attachment ambiguity and others. At the same
  time, the found examples of vagueness are expectedly much more numerous. The article aims
  to provide lawyers with tools for the systematic search and analysis of cases of linguistic ambiguity
  and vagueness in Russian texts.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: semantics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ambiguity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lexical ambiguity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: structural ambiguity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: vagueness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fuzziness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lack of specification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Linguistic ambiguity and vagueness in Russian legal texts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
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