This paper probes into the pragmatic feature of synonymy in contract English. According to the communicative principles, the use of synonyms in one sentence is regarded as redundancy.

• 在英语合同中经常出现同/近义词叠加现象的语用特征,根据语言的交际规则,两个意义相同或相近的词出现在一个句子中被视为赘述。