On the Standardization of Chinese Legislative Language

Xiaobo Dong is Professor at School of Foreign Languages and Cultures of Nanjing Normal University and Specially Invited Researcher at Institute of China’s Modernization of Rule of Law. He is also Director and Chief Expert of Jiangsu International Rule of law Research Center, as well as Chief Expert on major projects of the National Social Science Fund of China. His research interests include history of Sino-west civilization exchanges, comparative law, legal linguistics, legal translation, language strategy, and planning. In recent years, he has published over 150 interdisciplinary academic papers in prominent journals and more than 70 books, including academic monographs, edited volumes, and translations.Yafang Zhang is Ph.D. Candidate at School of Foreign Languages and Cultures of Nanjing Normal University and Researcher at Jiangsu International Rule of Law Research Center. Her research interests include Sino-west civilization exchanges, legal linguistics, translation of Chinese legal classics, and language planning.

• Chapter 1.  Introduction.- Chapter 2.  Legal Language.- Chapter 3. Legislative Language and Its Fuzziness.- Chapter 4. Fuzzy Legislative Language: Active Function and Realization.- Chapter 5. Language and Equality.- Chapter 6. Non-standardization of Chinese Legislative Language: A Perspective from the Philosophy of Law.- Chapter 7. Standardization of Legislative Language Translation.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.