Abstract
As one kind of the legislative language, the language of bilingual legislation possesses its specific characteristics: the two versions share the same authenticity and effect. Therefore, the contrastive analysis of this kind of language from the perspective of pragmatics is more persuasive and authoritative. In this paper, the author chooses Crime Ordinance of Hong Kong and its subsidiary regulation Suppression of Piracy Regulations as data to explore the similarities and differences in the realization methods of speech acts and the frequency of speech acts indicators between English and Chinese texts. The author hopes to find conversions and translations of the corresponding form in speech acts of bilingual legislation and provide references for legal translation between English and Chinese through this study.
Highlights
With the reunification of Hong Kong, the bilingual legislation of Hong Kong comes into people’s eyes
Based on the discussion of the speech acts in the English versions and Chinese versions respectively, the author will discuss the similarities and differences of the speech acts in both the English and Chinese versions
The author will discuss the problems occurring in the course of the contrastive study of the indicators in the two versions
Summary
With the reunification of Hong Kong, the bilingual legislation of Hong Kong comes into people’s eyes. The author of the present study is interested in investigating and comparing the legal forces distributions in bilingual legislative texts of Hong Kong from the perspective of speech acts. Speech act theory is applied to analyze legal discourses by some scholars Such researches are conducted either merely on English legislative language (Habermas, 1981; Danet, 1985; Trosborg, 1991, 1995), or only on Chinese legislative language (Zhang, 2000; Cao, 2007, 2009). In the present study, the author tries to unveil the mystery of the bilingual legislative text of Hong Kong from the perspective of speech act theory
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