A Case Study of Inter-sentence Conjunctions in Chinese/English Legal Parallel Texts

• 作者: Yan Xi
• 来源期刊: Macrolinguistics
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: conjunction CHINESE and ENGLISH LEGAL parallel texts HYPOTAXIS PARATAXIS
• 年，卷（期）: 2009,（1）
• 页码范围: 122-131
• 页数: 10页
• 分类号: G

摘要

The present study is a contrastive study of inter-sentence conjunctions in Chinese/English legal parallel texts. Conjunction is one of the five cohesive devices put forward by Halliday and Hasan (1976). Many scholars have applied their model of cohesion to the study of English and Chinese languages. As for the use of conjunction in Chinese and English, most scholars believe that there are more cases of conjunction in the English legal texts than in the Chinese ones because it is generally considered that Chinese is predominantly paratactic and English mainly hypotactic. Besides, up to now little detailed contrastive study has been done on conjunctions in Chinese/English non-literary texts.