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
外贸合同是对当事双方具有同等约束力的1种法律性文件。它涉及国家、企业、团体间的经济活动。外贸合同作为法律英语的1个分支，在社会生活中扮演越来越重要的角色。近半个世纪以来人们1直关注着外贸合同语言的使用和发展。但是，外贸合同的`研究成果大多只涉及到它的语言某些方面，或深度尚有欠缺。
本文在前人研究的基础上，对外贸合同语言作如下研究，首先文章阐述了合同的定义，并且对外贸合同及其合同语言做了概括性的阐述。在阐述外贸合同语言特征时，文章对外贸合同的篇章、语言实质、词汇、句子、时态等做了详细的研究，最后问章浅析了合同语言的运用。
本文通过语言分析，旨在探究外贸合同内在的文体特色，从而为合同的写作者及执行者提供1定的语言指导。
关键词：合同定义、合同语言、法律语言、合同语言词汇、句式
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