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LANGUAGE AS A MEDIUM OF LEGAL NORMS - LUTZ EDZA...

This study aims at investigating the important role that language plays as a medium of legal
norms and cultural values as surfacing in documents in the United Nations system. The author
focuses on diplomatic documents (bi- and multilateral treaties and correspondence) that
simultaneously have official status (authenticity) both in Arabic and in other languages. The
investigation of the role of language as a window onto culture and religious background is
especially relevant in the case of Arabic due to the interference of religion with law in most
Islamic societies. More specifically  problems will be pinpointed in the realms of personal
statute law  the legal status of women  the laws of marriage  divorce  inheritance  freedom of
opinion and religion  and penal law. At the heart of this study Edzard applies Speech Act
Theory to the analysis of the nature and consequences of textual differences between versions
of one and the same document in several languages.

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