Zum sprachlichen Weltbild in ausgewählten Begriffen aus dem Bereich des Erbrechts in der deutschen und polnischen Sprache

Abstract

The death, the proprietary relationships (especially right of ownership) and the will to devolve an estate to someone as the elements from the extra-linguistic reality move the people to use the language in form of the drawing up the testaments. These wills are always expressed through the agency of such language, whose form is regulated and arranged – at least to some degree – by a legislator using the legal language. The law determines then the language of the testament to that extent, which is necessary for right reconstruction of the testator’s will and for appropriate interpretation of his declaration. That will is always reconstructed on the basis of the testament, which is a speech act, without which the testator’s will cannot have any legal effects. In the paper hereunder there are presented the results of the language-cognitive analysis of the chosen terms from the inheritance law in the German and Polish language. The aim of the exploration is the showing of the terms’ equivalence in both languages, as well as the evaluation of the presence’s extent of the linguistic picture of the world in the words from both language and culture circles.

Keywords

• inheritance law
• linguistic picture of the world
• German language
• Polish language