Archaisms in Chinese and American Legislative Texts:A Corpus-based Study on“Hereby”
ZHAO Jun-feng
WANG Pei-lin
Abstract：Under the influence of The Plain English Campaign,Archaism usage in legal English is re-duced to only some of commonly used ones.In order to study archaisms in legal English,this paper analyzes the usage of“hereby”by means of AntConc on the basis of 2 self-built corpora that has a total of 1 .3 million words respectively.Based on the findings,the paper then proposes 4 strategies to use“hereby”in legal transla-tion or legal writings,namely,using“hereby”to preserve solemnity;using“hereby”to indicate specific docu-ments or words;using “hereby”in fixed sentence structures;using “hereby”more flexibly in legal English.
Keywords：Chinese and American legislative textsarchaismscorpushereby
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 41-46 )