Abstract

Interest contention is the embodiment of the essential issue in the process of business dispute resolution. In order to realize the interest competition in the settlement of business disputes, the litigants with different interest positioning and interest demands can use many information resources to express, cling to and fight for their interests under the influence of various factors. The present study attempts to make a discourse analysis of the cultural factors that influence the conflict of interests in China’s business dispute court hearings from the perspective of Discourse Information Theory. This research adopts the discourse information analysis method with the aid of “Legal Information Processing System Corpus (CLIPS)”. The analysis is mainly carried out from the perspective of cultural value, thinking mode, business culture and legal culture embodied in the interest competition in the settlement of business disputes. Under the influence of cultural factors, discourse information has different characteristics in the interests of business dispute resolution. The cultural factors and discourse information characteristics that influence interest competition in China’s business dispute settlement found in this study will complement and enrich the cultural research on interest competition in business dispute resolution, and promote the integration of different disciplines of business, law and linguistics, which has certain theoretical and practical significance.

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