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The increased exchanges of construction endeavors between China and her international counterparts have highlighted the importance of construction contracts, underlining the significance of the FIDIC Conditions for its wide adoption worldwide. However, a language perspective has yet to be adopted when exploring construction contracts. This study aims to uncover the language features of the General Conditions in the Red Book of FIDIC Conditions from the scope of the Multi-dimensional approach, which is conducive to a better understanding of construction contracts. In this study, salient language features of the General Conditions were uncovered in a visualized manner through the employment of the Multidimensional Analysis Tagger (MAT). It was found that nouns and normalization were frequently used in the General Conditions, with high frequencies of attributive adjectives, total prepositional phrases, predictive modals, and passive voice (agentless passives and by-passives). As to the general genre features of the Red Book, it was found to possess the features of being information-oriented, non-narrative, context-independent, self-assertive, abstract, and non-real-time-oriented. Those features further render the conditions formality in style, explicitness in communicative purposes, objectivity in stance, and authority in position. Such findings interrelate with each other and corroborate each other. They are of great professional and pedagogical significance for non-native practitioners.
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