Przyczynek do prototypowej kategoryzacji przestępstw i wykroczeń. Wybrane aspekty analizy kognitywnej polskiego języka prawnego na przykładzie Kodeksu karnego i Kodeksu wykroczeń Słowa

Abstract

Contribution to the prototype categorisation of offences. Selected aspects of cognitive analysis of the Polish legal language on the example of the Penal Code and the Code of Offences Summary The aim of the article is to establish a research hypothesis, according to which statutory definitions of crimes and offences are linguistic and mental categories, while assigning to them specific human actions and omissions is based on the separation of prototype copies, and moreover, it is subject to the phenomenon of the so-called “collection fuzziness”. The theses contained in the article will be verified in the course of further research on the structure of Polish jurisprudence, and perhaps – which would make it possible to emphasise the influence of culture on the categorisation of legal concepts and expressions – also foreign. Preliminary, theoretical analyses are based on a methodology derived from the cognitive linguistic current and may be of significant importance not only for linguistic research but also for the practice of justice in Poland and other countries conditioned by continental legal tradition.