On Hedges In The Uniform Commercial Code-Sales

The Uniform Commercial Code-Sales, are not only the legal protection for business in America, but also have world influences in international business communications. Recently, most of the rules in it have been borrowed in international treaties, and in some countries' domestic laws. For example, the rule of "anticipatory repudiation" has been borrowed in Chinese Contracts Law.With the developing of business communications between China and America, it is necessary to learn American major business law -the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales firstly. To learn the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales, we should begin with the characteristics of the language in it. People believe that legislative language should hold clarity and precision. Some researches on vague words/hedges in legislative languages have already been carried out, however, the researches on it, especially the researchers on hedges in legislative language, are very limited, besides, the only few researches on it are neither complete nor concrete.As one of the legislative language-the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales, whether the hedges could be excluding from it? The answer is not. Based on a detailed corpus analysis of the hedges in the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales, the author attempts to further explore the major linguistic realizations, the aim of using them and categories of hedges in it. The thesis concludes that hedges could be used in the corpus, and appropriately using of hedges could improve the accuracy of the expressions in it. This thesis is divided into seven parts.Part One begins with the necessity, purposes and significance of the present study. Part Two describes the present situations of the studies on hedges and vagueness in law. Part Three introduces the rationale of the present study.Part Four describes the present study, which includes its purposes, subjects, contents, results and findings of the corpus analysis.Part Five concerns general discussions based on the results and findings from Part Four. Part Six is about the implications of the present study.Part Seven draws the conclusion of the present study. It also points out some limitations of the present study and puts forward some suggestions for further research in this field.