Bērnu tiesību aizsardzības diskursa speciālās leksikas attīstība Latvijā un Apvienotajā Karalistē

The doctoral thesis is a study in the field of applied linguistics that analyses legislation on and discourse of children’s rights protection in Latvia and the United Kingdom. Paragraphs containing definitions and use of special lexis were excerpted from the analysed legislation on protection of children’s rights to evaluate use of the special lexis in different editions of particular laws, which allows for a historic review of special lexis development. This method allows for the observation of changes in the texts of definitions of special lexis units, while the legal analysis of the texts of paragraphs allows for the identification of changes in the use of language and its legal essence.