This essay opens the Special Issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law dedicated to Asian Languages, entitled "Legal and LSP Linguistics and Translation: Asian Languages' Perspectives". It focuses on revealing the principal issues discussed in the volume, by positioning the contributors' works into the general theoretical semiotic perspectives which shape legal languages, legal translation and public discourse over languages spoken in Asia. This volume of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law is composed of nine articles which may be grouped into four categories of problems. The first group in general refers to problems connected with legal communication both from interlingual and intralingual perspectives. Thus it encompasses four papers dealing with legal translation as well as communication in legal and political settings (