Maritime treaty English has peculiarity in linguistic characteristics. As a sub-register of legal language, maritime treaty English is considered to be very difficult to comprehend. This paper attempts to analyze its ...Maritime treaty English has peculiarity in linguistic characteristics. As a sub-register of legal language, maritime treaty English is considered to be very difficult to comprehend. This paper attempts to analyze its stylistic characteristics at the lexicalsyntactic level based on four international maritime treaties including STCW, SOLAS, MARPOL and ISM Code. It is concluded that understanding of these characteristics is both necessary and helpful in learning and teaching maritime treaty English.展开更多
Every industry has its professional terms or particular use of common words.The marine industry is no exception.This paper attempts to give a brief introduction to the elementary vocabularies related to marine industr...Every industry has its professional terms or particular use of common words.The marine industry is no exception.This paper attempts to give a brief introduction to the elementary vocabularies related to marine industry from six aspects:types of ships;ship’s structure and equipment,manning,logbook,safety and organizations concerned.The corresponding Chinese terms is given simultaneously.It concludes that a good master of these vocabularies is useful and necessary for Chinese seafarers whose native language is not English.展开更多
文摘Maritime treaty English has peculiarity in linguistic characteristics. As a sub-register of legal language, maritime treaty English is considered to be very difficult to comprehend. This paper attempts to analyze its stylistic characteristics at the lexicalsyntactic level based on four international maritime treaties including STCW, SOLAS, MARPOL and ISM Code. It is concluded that understanding of these characteristics is both necessary and helpful in learning and teaching maritime treaty English.
文摘Every industry has its professional terms or particular use of common words.The marine industry is no exception.This paper attempts to give a brief introduction to the elementary vocabularies related to marine industry from six aspects:types of ships;ship’s structure and equipment,manning,logbook,safety and organizations concerned.The corresponding Chinese terms is given simultaneously.It concludes that a good master of these vocabularies is useful and necessary for Chinese seafarers whose native language is not English.
