Ufa, Russian Federation
UDK 811 Языки естественные и искусственные
The article deals with the cognitive-psychological structure of understanding the text, provides special rules, the implementation of which should improve the readability and processing of legal documents, reduce emotional rejection by ordinary citizens. The most important of the provisions is the reference to known sources of information for understanding the unknown. At the state level (on the example of Germany), the possibilities of linguistic optimization of the texts of draft laws are offered. The article describes the work of linguistics experts of the editorial department “Legal Language” at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, aimed at editing the German official language, removing difficulties in reading and perceiving legislative documents. During the language processing of legal texts, complex utterances are transformed into understandable sentences, various kinds of transformations are made taking into account current language trends.
text, process of understanding, mental model, cognitive-psychological conditions, legal language, linguistic editing
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