ambiguity in criminal law whit a linguistic approach

The present study, based on linguistic construction with a semantic_ pragmatics approach investigates the types of ambiguity in criminal law. Vagueness in a sentence is due to linguistic ambiguity. Accordingly, the aim of this study is first to examine the ambiguity meanings and then to focus on vagueness at both lexical and syntactic levels and subgroups of each focusing on the words and sentences are the Islamic Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure as a body of data.  This research, with a new look and with a descriptive-analytical method, shows that at the level of lexical polysemy; homonymy, synonymy, technical and specialized language, the use of a foreign language (Arabic) has had the greatest impact on the ambiguity of criminal law. At the syntactic level, we can mention lexical omission, citation, the existence of long and complex sentences, frequent use of unusual Arabic expressions, non-observance of the principles of punctuation and Arabicization.