报关单证语言及文本特点的经济语用分析

An Econo-pragmatic Analysis on the Linguistic and Textual Features of Customs Declaration Documents

国际贸易在不同的阶段都会带来交易成本,这其中就包括外贸单证的语言消费成本。国际贸易是一种交际活动,报关单证是其重要的交际媒介/渠道。从人际交往的惰性层面来说,"经济原则"和"省力原则"也能找到其存在的理据。借助国际贸易中的"交易成本"概念,对报关单证的语言及文本进行经济语用分析,研究表明报关单证的用词、句法和篇章都符合语言人际交往的"经济原则"和"省力原则",也体现了英语简易化的发展趋势。

Transactional cost, of which language consumption cost is involved, appears inevitably in the different stages of international trade. International trade, in fact, is a kind of communication activity and customs declaration documents work as the vital media during international activities. In terms of the inertiality in communication, princi- pie of economy and least efforts can also find its rational existence. By in international trade, econo-pragmatic analysis is conducted about the referring to the concept of transactional cost language and textual features of customs de- claration documents. It＇ s generally believed that the lexical, syntactical and textual features of customs declaration documents are in good conformity to the principle of economy and least efforts, which also shows the very rational existence and trend of plain English campaign.