對廣泛接受的法律英語文體特點(diǎn)的證實(shí)和質(zhì)疑.pdf

1、 iiiAbstract Many famous linguists have conducted researches on legal English and put forward some widely-accepted stylistic features of legal English. But legal English is a very broad concept, including various kinds o

2、f sub-branches and it is widely accepted that language styles serve language functions . Faced with these facts, the author puts forward the research question of the thesis: Do stylistic features of all kinds of legal te

3、xts correspond to the widely accepted ones? International human rights conventions are different from other kinds of law in the respects of legislative body, legal subjects, content and executive mechanism. Taking Functi

4、onal Stylistics as theoretical frame, the author conducts a case study , contrasting the stylistic features of international human rights conventions with the widely accepted stylistic features of legal English. The the

5、sis is roughly divided into two major parts. Part one consisting of chapter one and two mainly expounds the theoretical frame and historical background of the study, which includes the introduction to legal English and i

6、nternational human rights conventions, theory of Functional Stylistics and previous studies on stylistic feature of legal English. Part Two consists of Chapter three, Chapter four, and Chapter five. Based on the above t

7、heoretical frame, the author carries out the case study in the light of the widely accepted stylistic features of legal English. Results are made of two parts. Firstly, most of the widely accepted stylistic features of l

8、egal English are represented in the international human rights conventions. They are the frequent use of formal words, modal verb shall, nominalization, declarative sentence and long sentence. Secondly, some of the widel

9、y accepted stylistic features are deviated in the international human rights conventions which bears the features of absence of Latin words and phrases, less professional terms, highly-frequent use of vague words, rare u