Un análisis lingüístico sobre las características del lenguaje jurídico italiano y español

Legal language is conceived as a sub-variety of the common language characterized by very specific features and is shown to be the immutable reflection of the behaviors that underlie each culture and differentiate it from others. In this regard, this article brings together the particularities of Italian and Spanish legal language in order to provide a brief decalogue of the most representative aspects to be taken into account in its translation through numerous examples drawn from current legislation. Initially, the lexical-semantic level will be dealt with, where the presence of foreign words and phraseology will take the main role; the morphosyntactic level, on the other hand, will pay special attention to the nominalization and the verbal tenses used in both languages; and finally, the orthographic and style level will focus mainly on the use of acronyms and abbreviations and on the obscurantism of legal language.