A Brief Study of the Linguistic Characters in Contractual English[论文]

A Brief Study of the Linguistic Characters in

Contractual English

Introduction 1
The Definition of Contract and Contractual English 2

2.1 The Definition of Contract 2

2.2 The Definition of Contractual English 3

The Linguistic Features of Contractual English 4

3.1 The Lexical Features 4

3.1.1 Formality 4

3.1.2 Archaism 6

3.1.3 Accuracy 7

3.1.4 Parallelism of Synonyms and Near-Synonyms 7

3.1.5 Modal Auxiliaries 10

3.1.6 Terminological Vocabulary 12

3.1.7 Avoidance of pronouns 13

3.2 The Syntactic Features 14

3.2.1 Long and Complicated Sentences 14

3.2.2 Flexible Sentence Structure 16

3.2.2.1 Adverbial Clause 16

3.2.2.2 Attributive clause 17

3.2.2.3 Nominal Structure 19

3.2.2.4 Prepositional Phrases 21

3.3 Other features of Contractual English 23

3.3.1 Passive Sentences 23

3.3.2 Simple Present Tense 24

3.3.3 Words-and-Numerals approach used to convey numbers 25

3.3.4 The Capitalization of Some Nouns in Contract 25

Conclusion 26

References 28