Deontologiacal itineraries of legal and parliamentary language

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to show that legal and parliamentary language does not consist of the mere expression of verbal forms, which are not subject to any assessment in terms of certain ethical requirements. The authors of this work understand that the legal or political ends pursued by means of language have an unavoidable deontological dimension. For this reason, these guidelines of what should be must be projected onto theifferrent manifestations of legal and parliamentary language. The different headings, of which this essay consists, are an attempt to develop and support this intellectual design concerning the undeniable deontological dimension of legal and parliamentary language. In order to achieve this purpose, the work begins with a study of the theoretical and conceptual assumptions on which the function of deontology in forensic and parliamentary oratory is articulated. This is followed by an analysis of the main methodological assumptions on which this research is based. The approach to this problem is based on the historical trajectory of rhetoric in the legal and political tradition. As a contemporary example of this subject, an archetypal model of forensic and parliamentary oratory is presented. Special attention is paid to a detailed study of the most relevant deontological implications of legal and parliamentary oratory. Due to its impact on current culture, a specific section is dedicated to the consideration of the relevance of gender issues in legal and parliamentary language. The essay concludes by alluding to the arguments, inferred from the development of the...