On Development and Evolution in China s Legal Language;

Seeing parenthesis’s function at daily vehicular language and legal language from relationship theory’s angle

As a branch of protocol language, legal language is characterized by accuracy of choice of words.

But the research activity of law language can be dated back to ancient Greek and Roman until today.

As a technical language being different from the natural language, law language has its own features in its absorption and application of the natural language.

In accordance with the phenomenon of the “length and breadth”occurring in the realm of language rhetoric methods and skills,this article probes especially into the rhetoric features of law language both vert:cally and horizontally.

Differing from the“ordinary”language we use in our daily lives, forensic language is a kind of legal carrier with strong sense of authority and power of restriction.

But recently, in our country, we did not attach enough importance to the forensic language function in count, and so did in the judicial world.

It is quite a modern thing for forensic linguistics to come out.

This paper analyzes the system of modality in the Constitution of the United States,applying the theories of modality in systemic-functional grammar and theories of legislative language in forensic linguistics.

The forensic linguistics is regarded as the carrier of the law,the importance of which is self-evident.

Given the tradition and reality of statute laws in China,the Chinese equivalent for the term "forensic linguistics" shall be restored to "司法语言学";"legal linguistics" and "法律语言学" could be equivalents for each other.