英文商业合同合作性原则分析.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 33 英文商业合同合作性原则分析 摘要：合同是进行商业活动必不可少的一类契约形式。在经济全球化的今天，研究英文商业合同是对英文学习者而言意义重大的一项任务。本文以语用学中的合作原则作为切入点，探讨英文商业合同的语言特点。通过例证梳理英文商业合同中合作原则的数量准则、质量准则、关系准则和方式准则的体现。 关键词：英文商业合同；语用合作原则；合同英语语言特征 1. Literature review 1.1 Introduction Cooperative principle describes rules governing the way people interact with each other. Among numerous studies of cooperative principle very few applied the principle to study subjects within the scope of business but majorly to the humorous effect caused by the violation of cooperative principle, daily conversation, literature works, film and television dialogues, play lines and so on. This thesis will mainly focus on the analysis of text of business contract from pragmatic perspective by means of discussing how the composition of business contract is in comply with the cooperative principle. As an outcome of this thesis the disclosure of cooperative principle’s working with the contract language will provide us with a new perspective into the language of English business contracts. Grammarians, indeed, haveregularly pointed out that not all sentences are used in making statements. There are, traditionally, besides grammarians’ statements, also questions and exclamations, and sentences expressing commands or wishes or concessions. It is, of course, not really correct that a sentence ever is a statement; rather, it is used in making a statement, and the statement itself is a logical construction out of the makings of statements.(Austin, 1962) Other than descriptive statements, sentences have other functions to serve the user’s need. Language communication does not occur in a vacuum, it always occurs in a context. In research on language and conversation, studies on language and studies on the context are equally important. The use of language cannot do without context; discourse is the product of a certain context. Holland linguistVan Dijk said: to fully describe the discourse， cannot regard it as language variants isolated, abstract, but