INTERDISCIPLINARY CIRCULATION OF LEXICAL UNITS AS A KEY CHARACTERISTIC OF ENGLISH LEGAL DISCOURSE (BASED ON THE TEXTS OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS)

The article continues a series of studies in the field of professional communication, specialized areas of communication of modern society and touches upon the problem of analyzing English legal discourse, which has a unique nature. The concepts of “legal discourse”, “international conventions” are revealed in the work, the idea of the social significance of law and its comprehensive impact on the life of both an individual and society as a whole is emphasized. The study material is the English-language texts of international conventions, which are freely available on the websites of leading international organizations (UN, EU, ILO, etc.) and interpreted as international agreements designed to regulate the rights and obligations of the parties within a specific specialized industry. Based on the results of an empirical analysis of linguistic material, the author points to the weight and abundance of interdisciplinary borrowings of lexical units within the designated discursive sphere in general, and in the context of international conventions in particular. According to the author, interdisciplinary circulation is dynamic and represents a constant process of exchange and mutual enrichment of the lexical system of a particular field of knowledge at the expense of another branch of science and technology. According to the data obtained, the main donor spheres are: politics, economics, the social sphere, medicine and other areas. The work also presents statistical data representing the frequency of use of borrowed units of the language and their correlation with the traditional sphere of application, with which this or that term or word is actually associated.