Abstract
Meaning is not correspondents to form strictly. Same meaning can use different forms. It is important to judge if the meaning is same in legislation action. The language of legislation comprehensively uses lots of forms of same meaning. According to its using frequency, it is: repetition, zero-anaphora, partial repetition, definition anaphora, pronominal anaphora, general word anaphora, synonym anaphora, and other forms anaphora. The frequency is decided by the characteristics of legislation language, and is different from the common language.
The main characteristics of using the forms of anaphora in legislation language can be as follows: the using of repetition is preponderance; still using same meaning of same form when the former form is long; using lots of zero-anaphora; though it is widely used in common language, pronominal anaphora is seldom used in legislation language.
| Keywords: | legislation language; forms of anaphor |
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