Analyzing International Treaties-A Generic Approach.pdf

1、Higher demands have been imposed on law-related professionals in China as ourgreat motherland is much more open to the outside world. Some generic knowledgeof English legal documents is urgent and helpful when they handl

2、e their routinebusiness. Recent years have seen the development of a number of approaches togenre analysis on the legal texts, which is still insufficient both in quantity andquahty This thesis aims to describe the disco

3、urse elements the move structures ininternational treaties after examining the existing descriptions of law genre.Afler analyzing thirty international treaty texts in authentic English, the writerfinds there exists a typ

4、ical six-move-structure in each international agreement. Somecomplementary linguistic features in the legal texts have also been discovered.All these findings in the thesis are open to suggestions and even critics for th