Abstract
The abstract plays a decisive role in academic writing and reading for many readers can get a clear sketch by just reading the abstract. However, few studies have been done on abstracts of legal articles currently, let alone a specified discussion in genre analysis between English one and Chinese. In view of this, this study aims to analyze the macro-structures of abstracts both in English and Chinese, and compare generic structures and linguistic features of abstracts between the two. Then the possible factors which caused these differences will be mentioned. Based on Bhatia's IMRC mode, this study analyzes 20 pieces of legal articles from top legal academic journals at home and abroad and finds that no matter in English or Chinese, the macro-structure of this kind of abstracts all basically tally with Bhatia' IMRC model. Due to different writing methods and the way of thinking as well as writing habits, there are some distinguished differences between English and Chinese legal article abstracts in the frequency and distribution of each move as well as the linguistic features.
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