图式理论在法律英语新闻语篇理解中的应用研究

图式理论认为,人们在接触和理解新事物的时候,会把已知的概念、过去的经历等背景知识与新接触的事物联系起来。图式理论在法律英语新闻语篇理解中的应用就是将语言图式、形式图式和内容图式应用于语篇理解中。掌握法律英语新闻的专业术语、固定表达及常用句型等是理解法律英语新闻语篇的基础;熟识法律英语新闻语篇结构、组织结构等有助于加工语篇的信息;丰富广博的背景知识的构建则利于深层处理语篇的内涵。

Schema theory holds that people will connect the known concepts, past experiences, and other background knowledge with new things when they are in contact with and understand new things. The application of schema theory in discourse comprehension of law English news is to apply linguistic schemata, formal schemata and content schemata in discourse comprehension. The basis of understanding the legal discourse is to master the professional terms, fixed expression and common sentence patterns of legal English news. It is useful for processing discourse to be familiar with the structure of English news discourse and the organization structure. The construction of rich and extensive background knowledge will help to deal with the connotation of the text.