ANALYZING STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CHINESE MILITARY LEGISLATIVE LANGUAGE UNDER THE LENSES OF LANGUAGE VARIANTS

Abstract

As a military variant of legal language,  military legal language contains  features from both general legal language and military language. Chinese legal language can be divided into legislative language and justice language. Similarly, military legal language can be categorized into military legislative language and military justice language. This article analyses Chinese military legislative language as a variant of Chinese legislative language. Based on the overview of stylistic characteristics of Chinese legislative language, giving insight into specific features of  Chinese military legislative language, and identifying relevant factors, the article highlights the key features of this language variant.