Stylistic Analysis Of International Accounting Standards

Under the trend of economic globalization, the better understanding of accounting English will do much to connect Chinese economy with the international economy. This thesis tries to use modern stylistics to study and analyze Accounting English, and then takes articles of International Accounting Standards (IAS) as a whole in order to make an analysis of its stylistic features from the perspective of graphology, vocabulary, grammar, and semantics with the methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis.The corpus that set up based on IAS contains more than 300 thousand words. Using the database software—Foxpro, some significant features of IAS such as punctuation, average word length, sentence length, tense and passive voice will be studied and several special features like graph, abbreviation, compound word, flexible word, declarative sentence, rhetorical way and connecting method will be discussed by using of qualitative method in order to find out the most important linguistic features of IAS.From the research, some significant features of IAS can be found: the words are solemn, accurate, explicit, and authoritative; abbreviations are used widely, lots of words are borrowed from other areas and complex sentences are widely accepted; rhetoric device are seldom used in IAS. This thesis will do some contributions to teaching, translation and study of IAS and accounting English.