ECONOMIC AND LEGAL DISCOURSE: PARADIGM OF CHANGES IN THE XXI CENTURY (ON THE MATERIAL OF CHINESE, ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN LANGUAGES)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the paradigm of changes in the content of official documents regulating economic and legal relations in the academic sphere in the XXI century. The author considers the factors influencing the process of changes in the content of official documents regulating economic and legal relations in the academic sphere in the context of the linguistic-translation paradigm. The concepts “economic and legal discourse”, “composition of the text of the document”, “academic sphere” have been clarified. Economic and legal discourse is determined through the prism of its dual nature (linguistic and extralinguistic) as a discourse of economics and law, education-driven discourse, its extralinguistic background being associated with the prerequisites for initiating elaborations in the area of education, for launching academic mobility programmes intended for participants of the teaching / learning process at the background of the native state development and intergovernmental cooperation. The text composition of the document is associated with the format (frame) of its representation, namely: the structural and compositional form of the document along with lexical and grammatical features of the economic and legal discourse. We interpret the academic sphere as the environment in which the acquisition of new knowledge, exchange of education-related information, implementation of scientific / research projects, practical manifestation of the outcomes, cultural exchange and intercultural communication take place due to the creation of certain conditions. Some changes in the structure and composition of the documents regulating economic and legal relations in the academic sphere have been characterised. The linguistic peculiarities of the English official documents and their variants of translation into Chinese and Ukrainian have been analysed. The author presents illustrative means demonstrating the interaction of factors influencing the content of official documents which regulate economic and legal relations in the academic sphere in the XXI century.