【正文】 om the practical procedures of political dialogues that assign individual rights and obligations to promote individual cooperative interactions and set legal and moral constraints on the pursuit of personal interests. Rightsbased contract theorists emphasize that the most important principles of the formation of contractual arrangements among individual and institutional contractors are freedom and equity,moral autonomy,fairness,individual wellbeing,and social utility. They believe that rights should entail these moral and legal constraints on the pursuit of each individual39。 in our general personal and family living,. legal,financial and other professional advice。 關(guān)鍵詞 ： 語言特征 ； 傳統(tǒng)合同 ； 現(xiàn)代合同 ； 正式合同 ii A Comment on Linguostylistics of Contract English Abstract This paper is aimed at expounding the linguostylistic features of the contract English． First it is designed to classify the English contracts into three kinds： the traditional,the formal and the modern． The traditional contract English may be the most formal of all English varieties and possess many lingual features such as extreme length of a sentence sometimes,even several paragraphs are constituted by one sentence dearth or absence of punctuation pervasion of archaic and big words ， employment of special terms,and paired synonyms,redundance of expressions,repetition of words,omission of articles and so on． The lingual styles of the traditional are formal,precise and conservative． The formal contract English resembles the traditional contract English in many ways,but differs a lot． It owns a great proportion of long sentences but mixed them with some short ones． It holds many archaic and big words but rejects paired synonym． It develops the section specially for definition and double way to indicate numbers． The lingualstyles of the formal contract English is formal,precise and clear． The Modern Contract English is quite different from the traditional and formal contract English .It acmodates mostly short sentences,and even phrases that act as sentences,some descriptive and subjective adjectives and adverbs may find their way into the modern contract． It shows a fondness for infinite verbs as post lingual styles of the modern contract English are precise,clear and concise． This paper also provides an approach to prehension of the traditional and formal contracts and predicts the tendency of the contract Eng1ish styles． Key words： Linguostylistics ； Traditional Contract ； Formal Contract； Modern Contract iii Acknowledgements First and foremost,I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor,both for his intellectual guidance and for his warm and constant encouragement during the process of writing this thesis. With patience and prudence,he labored through drafts of this thesis and pointed out defects in my theorizing. Therefore,I owe all the merits in this thesis,if any,to him,though I am fully aware that the thesis might still contain some mistakes,for which I bear the whole responsibility. My cordial and sincere thanks go to all the teachers in the Department of English,whose interesting and informative courses have benefited me a lot during my college years. The profit that I gained from their profound knowledge,remarkable expertise and intellectual ingenuity will be of everlasting significance to my future life and career. I am also very grateful to my classmates,who have given me a lot of help and courage during my stay in the University and throughout the process of writing this thesis. Last but not the least,big thanks go to my family who have shared with me my worries,frustrations,and hopefully my ultimate happiness in eventually finishing this thesis. Contents 中文 摘要 .............................................................................................................................. i Abstract ............................................................................................................................... ii Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................ iii Ⅰ .Introduction ....................................................................................................................1 of English Contracts ..................................................................................4 Contract ........................................................................................................5 of Lingual Styles of Traditional Contract ...............................................6 Length of Sentence .............................................................................6 2 Dearth of Punctuation ....................................................................................6 3Archaism ............................................................................................................7 4Special Terms .....................................................................................................7 B Summary of Lingual Styles of Traditional Contract ................................................8 Contract...............................................................................................................9 A. Features of Lingual Styles of Formal Contract .......................................................9 of Long and Short Sentences...............................................................9 Punctuation ..............................................................................................10 3. Less Archaism ................................................................................................10 4. Pervasive Special Terms an