On legal terms in Eighteenth-Century Russia (On the basis of the first translation of Beccaria’s treatise “On Crimes and Punishments”)

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Gherbezza E. On legal terms in Eighteenth-Century Russia (On the basis of the first translation of Beccaria’s treatise “On Crimes and Punishments”) SHLL, Vol. 3. 2020 , 249–260
Abstract

This paper is devoted to the first Russian translation of Cesare Beccaria’s treatise “On Crimes and Punishments”, made by Prince Mikhail Shcherbatov in the last third of the 18th Century. Special attention is focused on use of legal terms, that shows the main features of the legal terminology in the last third of the 18th Century, i.e. lexical variability, preference for Russian and Slavic legal terminology and rare use of lexical borrowing, extensive use of compounds and loan translations.
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Abbreviations
Источники
  • Беккариа — Beccaria C. Dei delitti e delle pene. Edizione rivista, corretta, e disposta secondo l’ordine della traduzione francese approvato dall’autore, coll’aggiunta del commentario alla detta opera di Mr. de Voltaire tradotto da celebre autore. Londra: Società dei Filosofi, 2001. 167 с. [первое издание: 1774].
  • Наказ 1767 — Наказ Императрицы Екатерины II, данный Коммиссии о сочинении проекта Нового уложения / под ред. [и с предисл.] Н.Д. Чечулина. СПб.: Типогр. Императорской Академии наук, 1907. CLIV, 175 с.
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Keywords

Russian language

18th century

historical lexicology

legal terminology

Mikhail Shcherbatov

Cesare Beccaria

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