從功能對等理論視野探究法律英語中的長句及其翻譯.pdf

1、 Abstract Joining the WTO means China’s relations with foreign countries will become more and more close and China’s economic transactions with foreign countries will greatly increase out of which issues or even controve

2、rsies will inevitably arises the settlement of which cannot be separated with employment of foreign languages, and especially of foreign legal languages. Fortunately, strengthening study of legal languages and legal tran

3、slation will afford a substantial guarantee for smooth development of China’s foreign economic relations. As China’s economic and legal exchange with the outside world is steadily increasing, every year a large number of

4、 Chinese laws and legal documents need to be translated into foreign languages to let the world access to more China’s rules and regulations. At the same time, for the purpose of learning from the developed countries, a

5、lot of foreign laws have been, are being or are to be translated into Chinese. Because of different histories, cultures, language structures, customs, as well as legal systems between English-speaking countries and China

6、, translation of legal originals into legal target language texts is consequently by no means a simple task. For the purpose of smooth transmission of legal cultures and legal thoughts and avoiding unnecessary misunderst

7、anding and cultural conflicts, it is of great importance for us to carefully study the textual structures of laws and especially accurately comprehend the long sentences in the English legal texts, based on which, this a

8、rticle attempts to take linguistic characteristics of legal English as the starting point to explore the features of legal translation, especially, the difficulties in translating long sentences. The sentence structures

9、of legal English are rather complicated, having lots of modifiers, usually with one main clause containing many subordinate clauses, i.e., one clause linked with a clause, then with another and another, and another, incl

10、uding apposition, clasp structure, etc.; the reason of length of the sentence lies in that the legal draftsman customarily expresses the specific legal provision by employing a separate sentence with an intent to maintai

11、n the integrity of the legal provision, and avoid ambiguity and confusion. As such, it is not unusual that lots of legislative writings are very cumbersome with as many as two hundred or more words of a sentence readily