A Study on the English Translation Strategies for the Contracts Volume of the Civil Code from the Perspective of Relevance Theory

With the globalization of the Chinese economy and the promotion of the Belt and Road initiative, the demand for English translations of legal texts is growing. As a representative document of China’s legal system, the English translation quality of the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China directly affects international legal exchanges. The discussion is over the translation strategies of the Contracts Volume of the Civil Code from the viewpoint of relevant theory in this paper, and the strategy for translating terms through the cognitive principle, communicative principle, and the difference between the maximum principle and the optimal principle in its English version, making legal texts translation have higher quality and communicative effects.