The problem of clarifying the correct use of the concepts of legal, law, and judicial for a clear purpose is currently in the field of interest of legal scholars, linguists, and terminologists. Communicators are also involved in the detailed study of this issue, for whom clarifying this issue is important and necessary for further media research of various kinds. The disagreement among scholars on the use of these concepts is explained, in our opinion, primarily by the not entirely clear establishment of the general term field in the domain of judicial («legal») science. The purpose of the research was to determine the correctness of word usage in the selfidentification of legal/law/judicial publications. In order to achieve this goal, we emphasize the need to fulfill the following tasks: – to distinguish self-titles in the description of legal/law/judicial publications; – to establish the linguistic features of the concepts of «legal», «law», «judicial» and the peculiarities ofscientific and practical discourse on this issue. As we have seen from the titles and descriptions of the publications, some of them contain the term «judicial» and others «legal» or «law». In the course of the study, we have identified the opinions of journalism scholars, philologists, and lawyers, both academics and practitioners, on the correctness of using these words in defining the intended purpose of the publication. The specialized press, which is based on the need to provide information services to a motivated reader (a narrow-profile specialist or a generalist), mostly uses the above concepts as equivalent. In our opinion, it is worth noting that publications for lawyers that contain professional information presented in an official business style (standardized, accurate and concise, containing stamps and clichés, straightforward word order, etc.) should be more appropriately called law media, and publications that contain information about law (legal relations) presented in a journalistic style of speech should be called legal media, and those that contain texts of regulatory legal acts and their explanations should be called judicial media In view of this, we consider that it is necessary to draw the attention of communicators to the need for a broader professional discussion of the problem of using specialized terminology in media research, taking into account the work ofscholars analyzed in our study.
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