A Comparative study of Chinese and Western legal language and culture
1st ed.
Author
Zhang, Falian
Additional Author(s)
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Publisher
Singapore : Springer Singapore, 2021
Language
English
ISBN
9789811593475
Series
Peking University linguistics research
Subject(s)
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
CHINA
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
LAW--LANGUAGE
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Abstract
This book involves a variety of aspects and levels, including the diachronic and synchronic dimensions. Law profoundly affects our daily lives, but its language and culture can at times be nearly impossible to understand. As a comparative study of Chinese and Western legal language and legal culture, this book investigates the similarities and differences of both sides and identifies their respective advantages and disadvantages. Accordingly, it considers both social and cultural functions, and both theoretical and practical values.
Firstly, the book addresses the differences, that is, the basic frameworks and disparities between the Chinese and Western legal languages and legal cultures. Secondly, it explores relevant changes over time, that is, the historical evolution and the basic driving forces that were at work before the Chinese and Western legal languages and cultures “met.” Lastly, the book elaborates on their fusion, that is, the conflicts and changes in Chinese and Western legal languages and cultures in China in the modern era, as well as the introduction, transplantation and transformation of Western legal culture.
