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Author Jedrzejowska, Izabela

Title Constitutional Terminology in Transition : the Drifting Semantics of the Supranational Discourse under Negotiation
Published BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (239 pages)
Series Veröffentlichungen des Dimitris-Tsatsos-Instituts für Europ. Verfassungswissenschaften - Band 9
Veröffentlichungen des Dimitris-Tsatsos-Instituts für Europ. Verfassungswissenschaften - Band 9
Contents Foreword; Introduction; 1. European Integration and Its Linguistic Implications; 1.1. The History of the European Integration; 1.1.1. Treaties establishing the European Communities; 1.1.2. The emergence of the European Union; 1.1.3. From the Constitutional Treaty to the Treaty of Lisbon; 1.1.4. The European Union of Tomorrow -- certain facts of the debate; 1.1.4.1. A Stand for the Emerging European Constitutionalism; 1.1.4.2. Uniqueness of the European Experience; 1.1.4.3. Possible scenario(s) for the future; 1.2. Linguistic Challenges of the European Integration Process
1.2.1. Introduction: "Translating" the European Union1.2.2. Translation today -- general remarks; 1.2.3. Translating or multilingual drafting?; 1.2.4. Principles of drafting of the EU legislation; 1.2.5. The principle of democratic multilingualism; 1.2.6. The emergence of new special languages; 1.2.6.1. Euro-English as the common European language?; 1.2.6.2. Eurojargon; 1.2.7. Culture vs meaning -- dismantling the illusion of determinancy; 1.2.8. Quo vadis Europa?; 2. Constitutionalism and its characteristic discourse; 2.1. Introductory remarks; 2.2. Constitutionalism and its basic principles
2.2.1. The foundations of constitutional law2.2.1.1. The notion of the constitution; 2.2.1.2. The people as pouvoir constituant; 2.3. Multiple faces of the constitutional order; 2.3.1. Parliamentarism, Presidentialism, and other constitutional types; 2.3.2. Poland's quest for a democratic constitutional system; 2.3.3. Constitutionalism without statehood -- a European perspective; 2.3.3.1. Teleological justification of the supranational constitutional order; 2.3.3.2. The Dynamics of the EU constitution; 2.3.3.3. The peoples of Europe as pouvoir constituant
2.4. The linguistics of the constitutional process2.4.1. National vs. supranational discourse; 2.4.2. Constitutional crisis or conceptual deadlock?; 2.4.3. State-oriented terminology in the post-statist milieu of theEU- a judicious choice or an objectionable hindrance?; 2.4.4. Constitutional discourse in flux; 3. Constitutional discourse at a Member State level as exemplified by the Polish constitutional terminology; 3.1. Introductory remarks; 3.2. The axiological substance of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, 1997; 3.2.1. Basic constitutional concepts and principles
3.2.2. Fundamental constitutional rights, freedoms and obligations3.3. Conceptual clusters: on the potential of the different, the shared and the negotiated; 3.4 The ontology of Europeanisation; 4. Supranational constitutional terminology of the EU; 4.1 Fundamental constitutional principles of the EU; 4.2. EU's institutional structure; 4.2.1. The European Parliament; 4.2.1.1. Political parties and political groups; 4.2.1.2. The role of the European Parliament; 4.2.1.3. EP's Bodies and their Duties; 4.2.1.4. EP's Committees; 4.2.2. The European Council
Summary Hauptbeschreibung The study takes a broad interdisciplinary look at the legal and linguistic implications of the European integration process. It focuses on the operation of constitutional discourse at both the national and supranational level, and the transformation the said discourse is undergoing as a consequence of its transfer to the new European context. The author postulates the need to devise a new EU-specific constitutional discourse so as to adequately denote and describe the idiosyncratic reality of integrating Europe. Other issues raised within the work involve inter alia: the tran
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Subject European Union.
SUBJECT European Union fast
Subject Constitutional history -- Europe
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
Constitutional history
Europe
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783830526810
3830526814