On the Linguistic Features of Business Contracts

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220504.305How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Business contract; Language features; Law; Rigorism

Abstract

Business contract belongs to a solemn style, with significant official document style characteristics, which is different from the genre of daily English and literature. The business contract language is characterized by accurate words and rigorous structure. It has strict requirements on words, syntactic structure and writing procedures. It avoids flashy or emotional words and does not pursue literary grace, charm and rhetoric. Specifically, business contract language has the characteristics of formatting, accuracy, preciseness, solemnity, unity and consistency. This paper will understand its language characteristics from four aspects: vocabulary, phrase, sentence and stylistic structure.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Puqing Shi
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - On the Linguistic Features of Business Contracts
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1682
EP  - 1685
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.305
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.305
ID  - Shi2022
ER  -