The language of law as a resource for Russia's national security: the concept of legal linguistic convergence.

The subject of the study in the article is legal linguistic convergence as a specific area of interaction between the language of law and national security in Russia. It analyzes how the quality of legal language, its clarity, and terminological consistency affect the state of linguistic and economic security, trust in state institutions, and the perception of key political and legal decisions in society. The focus is on the normative constructions used in language policy, education regulation, the information sphere, and the sanctions agenda. Particular attention is given to how legal definitions relate to real communicative practices and can be viewed as a resource for strengthening national security, rather than merely as a technical tool for describing norms. Additionally, the subject of the research encompasses institutional mechanisms for ensuring legal linguistic convergence. The study is based on a combination of formal-legal and comparative-legal methods with a legal linguistic analysis of the language of law; it uses elements of doctrinal analysis, interpretation of normative acts, and examination of texts reflecting sanctions and language policy. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the conceptualization of legal linguistic convergence as an independent factor of national security in Russia and its differentiation from the category of linguistic security. The article proposes an author's understanding of legal linguistic convergence as a process of aligning legal language with real communicative practices in the areas of language policy, education, information agenda, and sanctions policy. It is shown that the consistency of terminology, uniformity of key definitions, and consideration of the public's perception of legal formulations directly impact the stability of law enforcement, trust in state institutions, and the effectiveness of measures to ensure economic security. An additional novelty is the proposal of criteria for assessing the degree of such convergence, allowing for the identification of areas of increased risk in the linguistic and economic-legal spheres. It is justified that legal linguistic convergence should be regarded as a structural element of the national security system.

national security, language of law, linguistic security, jurilinguistic convergence, language policy, state language, sanctions policy, economic security, linguistic expertise, legal regulation