An Analysis on Language Features of Foreign Trade Contract
Abstract
Foreign trade contract is an agreement enforced by law. It concerns the economic activities of different countries, different enterprises and different organizations. As a sub-variety of Legal English, it plays an increasingly important role in our social life. In the previous half century, people have paid much attention to the development of the language of foreign trade contract. However, most of the research on business contract has merely touched upon some aspects of this sub-variety or has just made a general investigation at a superficial level. A profound study of business contract from a stylistic perspective is far from satisfactory.
Consulting the principles studied by predecessor, this thesis discusses the language features of foreign trade contract as following steps. First, the thesis expounds the definition of contracts and does a general explanation about contract and contract language. In discussion on language features of foreign trade contract, textual features, language essence, vocabulary, sentence and tense are discussed detailedly with separate paragraphs. Finally, the thesis expounds the way of using language of foreign trade contract.
This thesis tries to reveal language features of foreign trade contract and provide sufficient basis for the effective drafting of foreign trade contract, which, we hope, will help the draftsmen and executors of business contract to better understand and use the language of foreign trade contract.
Key Words: contract definition; contract language; legal language; contract vocabulary; sentence structure
摘 要
外貿合同是對當事雙方具有同等約束力的1種法律性檔案。它涉及國家、企業、團體間的經濟活動。外貿合同作為法律英語的1個分支，在社會生活中扮演越來越重要的角色。近半個世紀以來人們1直關注著外貿合同語言的使用和發展。但是，外貿合同的`研究成果大多隻涉及到它的語言某些方面，或深度尚有欠缺。
本文在前人研究的基礎上，對外貿合同語言作如下研究，首先文章闡述了合同的定義，並且對外貿合同及其合同語言做了概括性的闡述。在闡述外貿合同語言特徵時，文章對外貿合同的篇章、語言實質、詞彙、句子、時態等做了詳細的研究，最後問章淺析了合同語言的運用。
本文通過語言分析，旨在探究外貿合同內在的文體特色，從而為合同的寫作者及執行者提供1定的語言指導。
關鍵詞：合同定義、合同語言、法律語言、合同語言詞彙、句式
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