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- Is an insightful, highly readable and enjoyable book
- Makes an original, significant and valuable contribution to the general field of comparative law
- Enables students and attorneys to better communicate their ideas and analysis of law both verbally and in writing, using their newly found understanding of the language and culture of Western/American law and Chinese law
Part of the book series: Peking University Linguistics Research (PKULR, volume 4)
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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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Falian Zhang is Professor of Law at China University of Political Science and Law and President of the Chinese Association for Legal English Teaching and Testing . He is also Secretary-General of the Legal Culture Research Association of the Chinese Law Society, and Chief expert on major projects of the National Social Science Fund of China, and the member of the Legal English Translation Review Expert Committee of the Legal Work Committee of the National People's Congress. He has a varied background in education and his fields of research include Legal Language and Culture (Legal Translation), Legal Language Economics, Sino-US Relations, and Rule of Law Diplomacy. He has published, in recent years, over 50 papers in prominent journals and more than 30 books, including monographs, dictionaries and translations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Legal Language and Culture
Authors: Falian Zhang
Series Title: Peking University Linguistics Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9347-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Peking University Press 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9346-8Published: 09 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9349-9Published: 09 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9347-5Published: 08 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-3129
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3137
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 428
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Intercultural Communication, Applied Linguistics, Socio-legal Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies