自从2005年我应约组织第一个“法律语言学专栏”以来,已经过去了十一年。在这一段时间里,同许多其他学科领域一样,语言学领域发生了许多重要变化,其中最重要的变化之一就是法律语言学的快速发展。在国内,十多年前人们看待法律语言研究,就像改革开放之初国人看来中国的西洋人一样稀奇。现在,法律语言的研究已经步入常态化了,成为语言学这个大家庭有机的一部分了。比如,我们的语言学年度报告,我们的百科全书的修订和编撰,都要把法律语言的研究成 Eleven years have passed since I organized the first “Legal Linguistics Column” in 2005. During this period, as in many other subject areas, many important changes have taken place in linguistics. One of the most important changes is the rapid development of legal linguistics. At home, people treated legal language studies more than a decade ago as curious as the Chinese people in the early days of reform and opening up seemed to China’s foreigners. Now that the study of legal language has become normalized, it becomes an organic part of the family of linguistics. For example, our linguistic annual report, the revision and compilation of our encyclopedia, we must study the legal language into