Jurislinguistic convergence in historical dynamics: Western retrospectives and Eastern perspectives

The subject of the study is legal-linguistic convergence as a complex, historically conditioned process of rapprochement between legal traditions and linguistic forms of their expression in Western, Eastern, and Russian legal contexts. The article focuses not on specific examples of term borrowing, but on the profound transformation of the language of law that accompanies changes in models of legal understanding, law-making, and law enforcement. The analysis centers on the evolution of legal terminology, the methods of structuring normative texts, and types of legal argumentation through which legal reality is established and reinterpreted. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between the language of law and the language of statutes, mechanisms for adapting external concepts to the national cultural and legal code, as well as the convergent vectors that shape the modern language of law in Russia at the intersection of Western retrospectives and Eastern perspectives of its development. The methodological foundation of the study includes comparative legal, historical-linguistic, and discursive analysis, allowing for the identification of mechanisms of language transformation in different legal cultures and the establishment of directions of their legal-linguistic convergence. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the comprehensive understanding of legal-linguistic convergence as a multi-level historical and cultural process encompassing Western and Eastern legal traditions and forming a specific trajectory for the development of the language of law in Russia. The work substantiates for the first time that convergence is manifested not only in terminological closeness but also in the transformation of models of legal argumentation, the structure of normative texts, and methods of interpreting legal categories. The analysis revealed that the Russian language of law is formed in a mode of cross-influence from the logico-analytical Western tradition and the value-regulative Eastern model, ensuring its flexibility and adaptability. It is concluded that convergent processes serve as an important condition for enhancing the predictability of legal communication, strengthening normative clarity, and integrating the Russian legal system into the global legal space, while preserving its cultural-legal identity.