The Research About Ambiguity Causing Contract Dispute

The contract text bearing contract rights and obligations of the parties is both the accordance that the parties perform the contract and also the most direct and objective court evidence. The relationship between the contract and language is content and form. Certain content needs the right language form to express. But as long as language lives, the contract dispute caused by language problems is unavoidable, so researching contract dispute caused by ambiguity is not only significant to explain the contract text, but also has important value to standardize contract language and reduce contract dispute.With the development of economy, contract dispute is increasingly tricky and complex. The traditional method of contract interpretation cannot meet the need of reality. We need to enrich and perfect the existing contract interpretation method, while linguistic analysis method is the first choice. Language inaccuracy is mainly caused by language fuzziness, generality and ambiguity, and they are also the important language incentives of the contract dispute. The ambiguity is the most common incentive. Fuzziness and generality are language inherent characteristics, they are difficult to be eliminated and we also have no necessary to completely eliminate them. But the ambiguity is due to carelessness of the parties and it can be avoided. Only by the ambiguity of contract text as the research object and though analyzing a lot of real cases, we will classify the ambiguity using by the comparative analysis and empirical analysis method, and then try to use linguistics analysis method to solve the ambiguity of the contract dispute under the framework of the traditional contract interpretation principles. In the last part of my paper, we will combine with the Cooperative Principles to put forward some suggestions on how to avoid the ambiguity of contract text.