Keyword: «legal norms»

The article is devoted to analysis of the legislation regulating the work of mass media representatives, their relationships with public authorities and law enforcement bodies, and their obligations to the target audience. The article examines gaps, conflicts and weeknesses of the current legislation in mass media field. It also proposes solutions for change (addition) of legal norms, with regard to foreign experience.

The article presents the results of diagnosing the level of development of the legal awareness of younger schoolchildren. Pedagogical means for forming the bases of sense of justice at literary reading lessons are offered. The dynamics of the development of the sense of justice of younger schoolchildren is revealed.

The article is devoted to law and language as the sociocultural phenomena that are changing gradually along with the formation and development of society. Despite the diversity of these complex social phenomena connected with morality and, in general, with the culture of an ethnic group, they have many common features. This article considers them as an example of fundamental categories – the norms of the language and the norms of law – in a comparative aspect. In the article the author correlates the concepts of the language norm and the rule of law, compare their inherent features and the functions performed, characterize the types of norms, determine the nature of the interaction between the state and law, and especially the language situation. The norms of the language and legal norms have both common and distinctive features. Both norms are ethno cultural phenomena that have the following common features: objectivity, abstractness, validity, historicity formal certainty, mandatory application, supported by the state. There are no rules of the language and rules of law in general. They are historical, concrete, real, have cultural value. Along with the common features, significant differences can be identified. The strong-willed nature of a legal norm (the norm contains the will of the legislator), the enforcement of the norm by state enforcement, the establishment of it by the competent authority, the very nature of the relationship between law and the state cannot be compared or analogy. In turn, the variability of the linguistic norm, its extreme conservatism, the process of formation, the nature and degree of influence of society on the norms of the language are not correlated with the rules of law. The legal norm is developed by the competent authority and implemented forcibly, and the linguistic norms are formed spontaneously in the linguistic collective and are followed naturally. There are areas where the observance of the linguistic norms of the literary language is mandatory – these are the fields of science, public administration (more generally, official business), and mass communication. The functions of language and law are equivalent, identical to the functions of society and its culture, namely, they can be attributed to: communicative, consolidating, regulatory, accumulative, informational and ideological. The norms of the language and the norms of law fulfill socially significant functions, the main among them is communicative. This is a universal function of the language, but also a basic function of law. The commonality of the traits is determined by the sociocultural nature of the norms of the language and the norms of law, their belonging to socio-historical categories, the difference is given by the heterogeneity of both phenomena.