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A Brief Analysis on the Stylistic Features of English for Business Contracts | Zhu | Theory and Practice in Language Studies
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol 1, No 12 (2011), 1849-1852, Dec 2011
doi:10.4304/tpls.1.12.1849-1852

A Brief Analysis on the Stylistic Features of English for Business Contracts

Jiang Zhu, Qian Wu

Abstract


English for business contract is a sub-variety of legal English. This paper aims to investigate the stylistic features of English for business contracts. First, it introduces the definition, development and basic contents of style, stylistics and contract’s style. Then it analyzes the specific stylistic features of English for business contracts from perspectives of lexicon. The paper also analyzes the stylistic features in terms of syntax.


Keywords


English for business contracts; stylistic features; lexical features; syntactic features

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