Ａ　Ｔｒｉａｌ　Ｓｔｙｌｉｓｔｉｃ　Ａｎａｌｙｓｉｓ　ｏｎ　Ｃｏｎｔｒａｃｔｕａｌ　Ｌｅｘｉｓ.docVIP

Ａ　Ｔｒｉａｌ　Ｓｔｙｌｉｓｔｉｃ　Ａｎａｌｙｓｉｓ　ｏｎ　Ｃｏｎｔｒａｃｔｕａｌ　Ｌｅｘｉｓ 　　【Abstract】It is of great importance in such commercialized society to translate business English, especially contractual language. The article attempts to analyze the contractual words―hereby group and binomials, through the stylistics theories of prototype and feature matrix in semantic triangle. Consequently, we find some stylistic explanation in contractual language’s formality and solemnity. 　　【Key words】Translation of contracts Prototype Feature matrix Semantic triangle Reference 　　 　　1．Introduction 　　As is known to all, the philosophy basis for western world lies in its “contract spirit”, which may originate from Socrates times. It is of utmost importance to learn and to study the contractual English in an all around way in consideration of the enhancement of globalization and economy development, commercial contracts. In view of this, the author attempts to carry out stylistic analysis on contractual lexis. 　　2．Stylistic analysis 　　Concept dictates that the meaning of a word lies in the mental concept associated with it, which itself may be defined by semantic features （prototype theory is a psychological approach to conceptual meaning which implicitly involves semantic features）. Prototypes are images we store in our minds as examples of concepts. 　　When we encounter a word, it is the concept that first emerges in the mind. Such a concept takes the form of a prototype to help people understand the word’s denotational meaning. By the image of prototypes, we can then get the connotational meaning （referent） of the word. 　　（1）Feature matrix and hereby words 　　Let’s take the word “bread” for example, trying to analyze it with feature matrix. 　　［+ baked］ 　　［+flour/meal］ 　　［+milk/water］ 　　［+leavening］ 　　The matrix means, the moment people talk about bread, the image of a baked food consisting flour/meal, and milk/water, and usually something causes it to rise will appear in our minds. That’s bread’s