| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第10-16页 |
| ·Rationale of the Study | 第10-12页 |
| ·The Importance of Legal Language | 第10-12页 |
| ·A Need for Research of Legislative Language | 第12页 |
| ·Statement of the Problems | 第12-13页 |
| ·Purpose of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research Methodology and Data Collection | 第14页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第16-28页 |
| ·Legal Discourse | 第16-20页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Legal English | 第16页 |
| ·Features of Legal English | 第16-17页 |
| ·Differences between National Law and International Law | 第17-18页 |
| ·The International Convention as a Special Legislative Discourse | 第18-19页 |
| ·Variants or Sub-Varieties of Legal Language | 第19-20页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Passive Voice | 第20-26页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Passive Voice in Theories | 第20-25页 |
| ·Passive Voice in the Formalistic Approach | 第20-22页 |
| ·Passive voice in the Functional Approach | 第22-25页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Passive Voice in Practices | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Studies of Passive Voice in Some Specific Discourses | 第25-26页 |
| ·Different Views about Passive Voice in Legal Discourse | 第26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26-28页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMWORK OF THE PRESENT STUDY | 第28-40页 |
| ·Introduction | 第28页 |
| ·The Theory of Critical Discourse Analysis | 第28-35页 |
| ·General Introduction to CDA | 第28-29页 |
| ·Three Major Issues of CDA | 第29-33页 |
| ·Ideology | 第29-30页 |
| ·Power | 第30-31页 |
| ·Social Situation | 第31-33页 |
| ·Main Approaches to CDA | 第33-34页 |
| ·A Critical- Functional Framework | 第34-35页 |
| ·Devices to Analyze Power in Legislative Discourse under C-F Framework | 第35-38页 |
| ·Analyzing Power at Syntactic Level—Transformation | 第36-37页 |
| ·Analyzing at Textual Level—Thematic Structure and Information Structure | 第37-38页 |
| ·Thematic Structure | 第37-38页 |
| ·Information Structure | 第38页 |
| ·Summary | 第38-40页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF VOICE IN THE CONSTITUTION AND IN THE CHARTER UNDER CRITICAL-FUNCTIONAL FRAMEWORK | 第40-59页 |
| ·Introduction | 第40-42页 |
| ·Power Realization and Passive Voice in the Constitution | 第42-52页 |
| ·Power Realization at Syntactic Level—Transformation | 第43-48页 |
| ·Passivization in the Constitution | 第43-46页 |
| ·Power Realization through the Functions of Passivization in the Constitution | 第46-48页 |
| ·Power Realization at Textual Level in the Constitution | 第48-52页 |
| ·Thematic Structure and Information Distribution in the Constitution | 第49页 |
| ·Power Realization in Information Structure | 第49-52页 |
| ·The Low Frequency of Passive Voice in the Charter | 第52-57页 |
| ·Power Relations among the Participants in the Charter | 第52-55页 |
| ·The Influence of Power Relations on the Selection of Voice in the Charter | 第55-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-59页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第59-62页 |
| ·Summary of the Present Study | 第59-60页 |
| ·Contributions of the Present Study | 第60页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Research and Recommendations for Further Study | 第60-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-66页 |
