Legal Transplants: Word-Building and Word-Borrowing in Slavic and South Pacific Legal Discourse

Abstract

The Slavic and South Pacific languages and legal systems are geographically distant from each other. However this paper argues that similar equivocally progressive or regressive changes operate in each with critical, and often controversial, consequences for lawyers, linguists and all others engaged in communicative enterprise. This article explores those issues and concludes with proposing a six-point model for the successful working of legal transplants.