法律英语准确性的实现途径

The Approaches to Preciseness of Legal English

法律文本的语言具有准确性特征。法律英语的准确性主要依靠语义,包括同义词、准确词和模糊词汇的使用,以及语篇,包括条件句、被动语态、复杂句式和陈述式的使用两个途径得以实现。

This article has discussed the language feature of legal text, and has discussed the approaches to preciseness of Legal English through the analysis of some legal provisions and their translations. The author considers that the preciseness of Legal English has been achieved by both semantic and discourse approaches.