A nyelvhasználat jogi szabályozhatósága

Abstract

Regulating language usage is the novelty of modern times. In the antiquity, language usage was regulated by customs determined by circumstances and, in some cases, customary law. From a historic point of view it is thus evident that the active and passive knowledge of a common language has been a constitutive element of the modern state – language has become an instrument of exercising power. In this study I intend to show how the legal regulation of the use of language changed in different eras.