商务合同英语的文体特征.doc

PAGE PAGE 1 商务合同英语的文体特征 Introduction The business contract is a document with legal position, which is signed in business activities. Therefore, English for business contract is the language that formed and used in business activities, on the basis of the English language with the characteristics of business English and law English. It is also the language function changing style with special use and self-regulation in the long-term using according to some language factors. English for business contract is not the special language material and private grammar system but the language area with special use in business. The American linguist Martin Joes offers the five classification methods of the regular degree of language in his writing “The Five Clocks” according to the some factors that reflected the formal degree in language using. That is frozen style, formal style, consultative style, casual or informal style and intimate style. It is generally think that the business contract belongs to the frozen style, which is a kind of the highest formal degree in the literary style. So it has the clearly stylistic characteristics in the phrase, sentence construction and passage. 1. Vocabulary Characteristics The business contract is the reflection of the party’s right and obligation in business activity. It has restraining between the two parties and requires the accurate vocabulary, strict meaning. We can’t use the beautiful words and plentiful modifier like metaphor, exaggerate and euphemism. Therefore, what the English for business contract pursue is not the art of language but the exactly and well logical, technical and standard expression also the clarity thought. So it appears the obviously stylistic feature in vocabulary. The use of technical terms, literary words and juxtaposed words in Business. 1.1 The application of technical terms The technical terms have the feature of international generally use, accurate meaning, clarity stylistic characteristic, have