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A Contrastive Study on the Style of Journalese and Legalese English

Author: ZhaoRuiXue
Tutor: DengHongFeng
School: Ocean University of China
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Comparative study News English Legal English Style
CLC: H315
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract


News in English and legal English is the English-language domain two special has distinguished literary language, and other practical style of notable features. Linguists believe that the task is not listed stylistics certain stylistic names, but rather to observe and describe characteristics of several major stylistic language, that their respective phonological, lexical, syntactic and textual features. Ordinary English words and phrases, sentences and chapters are based on common sense to interpret them, and Legal English and English news has its unique stylistic features. Since 1963, U.S. Attorney David US Lin Kefu's book \discourse structure in-depth and detailed analysis. The News English scholars have also attracted a lot of syntactic structure, vocabulary and discourse structure features were analyzed. This paper from the vocabulary, grammar and discourse three aspects of legal English and English-style news were compared, tally up two kinds of different style and Analysis of the causes of these different reasons. By contrast we find legal English News English stylistic characteristics and depends mainly on two different different social functions. Legal English special role in society requires formal legal English, accurate, conservative, and to avoid vague and ambiguous. For formal and precise legal English seem excessive pursuit of making complex, cumbersome, and even boring. The special social functions News English News English language requires concise, easy to understand, allowing the public to grasp in a short news reports by those who want to spread the news. Legal English and English news these stylistic features in its vocabulary, syntax and discourse organization are reflected. In words, the existence of legal English and news in English legal English is the main difference between the ancient words and tend to use long words, while the news in English tend to adopt new vocabulary words and brief. In the syntax, the legal English sentences commonly used long sentences. Legal English rigorous, accurate characteristics required to express its meaning must be complete, it also makes the legal English sentences long. In order to make the meaning accurately expressed, after the qualifier has also been widely used, thus becoming legal English in syntactic another characteristic. With different legal English, journalism phrases commonly used in English, elliptical sentences and use modifiers to achieve the former English News straightforward features. In the discourse, the article mainly Rheme aspects to analyze. In the clause, Legal English and English news using more single theme, but individual theme and Multiple Theme in English law a small proportion of the gap, the authors analyzed the analysis found that commercial law, business law in Multiple Theme in the frequency of use is higher than single theme. The news in English use of the individual thematic Multiple Theme frequency much higher than the frequency of use, individual Multiple Theme Theme in the proportion of the gap reached 75%. Through analysis, the authors concluded that the above legal English and Journalism and English at the stylistic differences between the two is mainly a social function and social requirements of the decision. There are various types of legal language, including legal documents legal language in the text of the law is the most authoritative, the most formal, most specifications and the smallest kind of context-dependent. This article was studying law when possible, choose the style of English legal texts as the corpus. To make the comparison more precise, news corpus of English law as much as possible choose to reported incidents. The purpose of this paper is to enable learners to better understand the law and news in English English stylistic features, able to appropriate occasions, such as translation and writing were using them. This takes a lot of time to study confirms the text of the legal news in English and stylistic features of English and compare the two, I believe that this article will be legal English News English style stylistic and comparative study has some theoretical and practical significance. Also, because the scope of the limitations of survey data, such as legal texts and news corpus span of time, other types of law whether the text has a similar stylistic features and other aspects, this paper some problems still exist, yet to be studied in further detail .

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