Tradition and innovation in the language of Italian pleadings: Anglicisms and Latinisms

The essay focuses on lexical aspects of Italian court proceedings, starting from the AttiChiari corpus. The work dwells in particular on the non-Italian lexical component within the lawyers proceedings: on the one hand, Latinisms, which derive from the profoundly conservative character of the legal language and its link with the language of Roman law; on the other hand, foreignerisms, a direct consequence of the continuous adaptation of the language of law to changing social values and phenomena, political ideologies and technological innovations.