Constitutional terminology in transition : the drifting semantics of the supranational discourse under negotiation / Izabela Jedrzejowska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jędrzejowska, Izabela.

Series:

Veröffentlichungen des Dimitris-Tsatsos-Instituts für Europ. Verfassungswissenschaften - Band 9

Veroffentlichungen des Dimitris-Tsatsos-Instituts fur Europaische Verfassungswissenschaften ; Band 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--Europe.

Constitutional history.

European Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, c2012.

Language Note:

English

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 ali

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. European Integration and Its LinguisticImplications; 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 constitutionaltypes; 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- ajudicious choice or an objectionable hindrance?; 2.4.4. Constitutional discourse in flux; 3. Constitutional discourse at a Member State level asexemplified by the Polish constitutional terminology; 3.1. Introductory remarks; 3.2. The axiological substance of the Constitution of the Republicof 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, theshared 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

4.2.3. The Council of the European Union (the Council)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ncludes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-8305-2681-4

OCLC:

809774688