Keywords
legal language, Uzbek legal discourse, law, punishment, legal changes, legal terms, jurisprudence, source, documents and drafts
Abstract
This article vividly describes the development stages of Uzbek legal discourse and its special features including legal terms, sources and documents. Indeed, throughout these development periods, Uzbek legal language has been greatly influenced by other languages such as Old Turkish, Arabic, Russian and etc. Uzbek legal language has not been thoroughly studied until the independence due to the effect of Russian language used in Soviet Union, and, thus most of the legal terms borrowed from this very language are still in use. However, it is not true to completely believe that most borrowings are Russian as Russian language itself borrowed most of its legal terms from other languages.