a comment on linguostylistics of contract english 论合同英语的语言特征.docx

本科毕业论文 中文题目： 论合同英语的语言特征 外文题目: A Comment on Linguostylistics of Contract English院 系 国际商学院 专 业 英语（国际经济与贸易) 年 级 2011级 学 号 2011020641217 学 生 指导教师 结稿日期 四川外国语大学重庆南方翻译学院教务处制2015年 5月 4日填 论合同英语的语言特征摘要：本文旨在阐述英文合同语言特性,首先本文旨在分类将英文合同分为三类:传统的合同、正式的合同以及现代的合同。

三类合同在语言特征上存在鲜明差异,也反映了英文合同的发展趋势 传统合同英语可能是最正式的英语合同和拥有许多语言特性例如极限长度的句子有时甚至几个段落是由一个句子组成,缺乏或没有标点符号的,使用了成对的同义词,词汇冗余、重复和省略被大量运用所以其语言特征风格的传统是正式的、精确的和保守的 正式合同与传统合在语言特征方面拥有很多共性,同时也有不少差异,其拥有大量与短句子搭配的长句子,极限长度的句子被大量运用,但却排斥了成对的近义词正式合同英语具有正式、准确、明确的特征现代合同在语言特征上与传统合同与正式合同有着明显的区别,其主要采用短句子,有时甚至用短语来充当句子,许多描述性以及规范性的形容词和副词都被英语的现代合同中,大量非谓语性动词被当做后置修饰,现代合同的语言特征是精确、明了和简洁本文还探讨了对于传统合同和正式合同的解释方法,并且预测了英文合同的未来发展趋势关键词：语言特征；传统合同；现代合同 ；正式合同A Comment on Linguostylistics of Contract EnglishAbstract This paper is aimed at expounding the linguostylistic features of the contract English．First it is designed to classify the English contracts into three kinds：the traditional,the formal and the modern． The traditional contract English may be the most formal of all English varieties and possess many lingual features such as extreme length of a sentence sometimes,even several paragraphs are constituted by one sentence dearth or absence of punctuation pervasion of archaic and big words，employment of special terms,and paired synonyms,redundance of expressions,repetition of words,omission of articles and so on．The lingual styles of the traditional are formal,precise and conservative． The formal contract English resembles the traditional contract English in many ways,but differs a lot．It owns a great proportion of long sentences but mixed them with some short ones．It holds many archaic and big words but rejects paired synonym．It develops the section specially for definition and double way to indicate numbers．The lingualstyles of the formal contract English is formal,precise and clear． The Modern Contract English is quite different from the traditional and formal contract English .It accommodates mostly short sentences,and even phrases that act as sentences,some descriptive and subjective adjectives and adverbs may find their way into the modern contract．It shows a fondness for infinite verbs as post modifiers.The lingual styles of the modern contract English are precise,clear and concise． This paper also provides an approach to comprehension of the traditional and formal contracts and predicts the tendency of the contract Eng1ish styles．Key words：Linguostylistics ；Traditional Contract ；Formal Contract； Modern ContractAcknowledgements First and foremost,I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor,,both for his intellectual guidance and for his warm and constant encouragement during the process of writing this thesis. With patience and prudence,he labored through drafts of this thesis and pointed out defects in my theorizing. Therefore,I owe all the merits in this thesis,if any,to him,though I am fully aware that the thesis might still contain some mistakes,for which I bear the whole responsibility. My cordial and sincere thanks go to all the teachers in the Department of English,whose interesting and informative courses have benefited me a lot during my college years. The profit that I gained from their profound knowledge,remarkable expertise and intellectual ingenuity will be of everlasting significance to my future life and career. I am also very grateful to my classmates,who have given me a lot of help and courage during my stay in the University and throughout the process of writing this thesis. Last but not the least,big thanks go to my family who have shared with me my worries,frustrations,and hopefully my ultimate happiness in eventually finishing this thesis.iv Contents中文摘要 iAbstract iiAcknowledgements iiiⅠ.Introduction 1II.Classification of English Contracts 4III.Traditional Contract 5A.Features of Lingual Styles of Traditional Contract 61.Unusual Length of Sentence 62 Dearth of Punctuation 63Archaism 74Special Terms 7B Summary of Lingual Styles of Traditional Contract 8IV.Formal Contract 9A. Features of Lingual Styles of Formal Contract 91.Mixture of Long and Short Sentences 92.Full Punctuation 103. Less Archaism 104. Pervasive Special Terms and Formal Words 105.Fewer Words in Pair 116. Complicated and Strict Expression 11B.some Syntactic Features 11C.Other Features 12V.Modern Contract 13A.Features of Lingual Styles of Modem Contract 131.Short Sentences 132.Full Punctuation 133.Fewer Archaic Special and Big Word。