The risks of context-free evaluation of legislative language solutions (polemical article)

The purpose of this paper is a creative polemic with the theses expressed by Katarzyna Sornat in her article concerning the analysis of selected Polish legislation from a normativist point of view. However, the Author adopts only the methodology of normative linguistics and ignores the achievements of legal theory, which leads to omitting the whole contextual layer of the examined texts, and thus impoverishes K. Sornat’s analysis. Critical comments to her conclusions serve to observe how sensitive the social space is to the introduction of technical changes to the law and why the analysis of the state law must also take into account the directives of its interpretation.