Types of linguistic expertise of bills: prospects of implementation in Ukraine

Abstract

In world practice linguistic control of rulemaking is a binding procedure, the importance of which is axiomatic. However, in Ukraine the legal status of linguistic expertise of draft laws (LEB) is still not defined owing to political, legal and social factors. Therefore, in the article the author considers LEB in linguistic and legal aspects. Classical and modern approaches to the classification of linguistic expertise of bills, also prospects of its implementation in Ukraine are considered. The article consists of the following parts: theoretical analysis, applied aspect and law dimensions of LEB. The first part of the article gives a detailed review of scientific approaches to categorization of LEB according to various criteria. Special attention is paid to those classifications that have integral nature (taking into consideration legal and linguistic factors of examining the texts of draft laws). In the second part, particular attention is given to the author's classification of LEB in the context of the legislative procedure in Ukraine. It is requested to group linguistic examination of bills in four types: discursive, semantic, grammatical and translation examinations. The kind of errors in the texts of bills was chosen as the criterion for the classification of LEB. In the third part, Ukrainian legislation governing legal relations in the area of draft laws examination in the legislative process are overviewed, flaws of legal regulation of expert activities in the field of lawmaking are noted. It is shown that legal status of LEBs in the legislative procedure is absent and the ways to legalize LEB in Ukraine are suggested. The article is of interest to specialists in the fields of the theory of state and law, constitutional law, applied linguistics, relevant experts, as well as to justice authorities and the judicial system representatives.