Language Features Of The International Business Contracts

With the deepening of reform and opening-up and its accession to the World Trade Organization, China is playing an increasingly active role in the world economic activities and enhancing its economic and commercial exchanges and cooperation with an increasing number of countries. In Sino-foreign economic and commercial cooperation, after agreement is reached through negotiation or exchange of correspondence by the parties concerned, it is always need to sign the official written contract separately—as a legal basis for the establishment of business relationship. Because of the foreign nature of the contract, it often needs to use the international general English to compose, Therefore the familiar of international commercial English's characteristic, enhances the level of writing English contract as soon as possible, is having the vital significance to practices"walking outside"developmental strategy on behalf of our country.The commercial contract signing in the commercial activity has the legal status, it uses the rigorous accurate expression in the expression, manifests the rigorous of the legal language; writes in a straightforward manner to clear the rights and obligations of both sides of the contract. English contract's words has the characteristics of accurating, rigorous, official, grave, conservative and so on, specifically manifests in the official literary words and expressions, the specialized words and expressions, the archaism literary style words and expressions, the foreign word, the synonym compound, the fuzzy limit word utilization as well as the use of the specific meaning word. The contract language's grammar characteristic is the widely usage of the subordinate clause folds, the attributive clause, the adverbial subordinate clause, the adverbial position appears frequently in the principal clause interior or the subordinate clause interior guarantees the legal language strictness and clear. The contract language interweaves each kind of membership clause merges long and the independent compound sentence, does not use the abbreviation sentence, does not use the sigh sentence, very little uses Jian Danju. The contract language's chapter characteristic is that the structure is standard, the orderliness is clear, and the using of the legal document's general sentence pattern.