体裁分析视阈下的中国仲裁裁决书研究

A Study on Chinese Arbitration Awards from the Perspective of Genre Analysis

仲裁裁决书是仲裁活动中至关重要的部分,静态地反映了仲裁案件的事实认定过程和法律适用。作为法律语言学一块新的研究领域,本文基于Swales的CARS理论框架,构建了中文裁决书的语步模型,同时创建小型语料库以便对该模型进行验证分析。结果显示中文仲裁裁决书语步结构高度标准化,修辞结构固定严谨,语言表达兼具程式化和通俗化,可读性较强,语言精确性和模糊性并举,使用柔性词汇提高情感度。这些语言特征均服务于其总的交际目的,即明确当事人的权利与义务,明晰双方关系中的责任和是非曲直,最终起到"定纷止争"的作用。

The arbitration award is a crucial part in arbitration activities, because it reflects the process of restoring facts and the application of law in arbitration. In order to explore the new filed of forensic linguistics, this paper builds a move-step model for Chinese arbitration awards on the basis of Swales＇ CARS framework, and also establishes a small-sized corpus to validate and analyze the model. The research findings show that Chinese arbitration awards are highly standardized, rigorous and fixed in terms of rhetorical structure, stylized but popular in linguistic expression. Besides the feature of accuracy or vagueness according to the context, soft words are used to enhance the intensity of e- motion in arbitration awards. All these linguistic features serve the overall communicative purpose of arbitration awards, and aim to de[ine the rights and wrongs as well as responsibilities of each party in order to settle disputes.