| Preface | 第1-11页 |
| Chapter 1 An Overview of Speech Act Theory | 第11-26页 |
| 1．1 Origin of Speech Act Theory | 第11-17页 |
| 1．1．1 Permatives and Constatives | 第11-13页 |
| 1．1．2 Collapse of the Dichotomy | 第13-14页 |
| 1．1．3 Three Kinds of Speech Acts | 第14-16页 |
| 1．1．4 Austin's Taxonomy of Speech Acts | 第16-17页 |
| 1．2 Development of Speech Act Theory | 第17-26页 |
| 1．2．1 Searle's Revision | 第17-21页 |
| 1．2．2 Searle's Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts | 第21-24页 |
| 1．2．3 Indirect Speech Acts | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 2 Application of Speech Act Theory to Legal English Analysis | 第26-45页 |
| 2．1 What Is the English Language of Law or Legal English | 第26-28页 |
| 2．2 Pragmatic Features of Language of Law | 第28-40页 |
| 2．2．1 Use of Complicated Sentence Structure | 第29-31页 |
| 2．2．2 Frequent Use of Modal Auxiliaries ”shall, should and may” | 第31-32页 |
| 2．2．3 Legal Drafting in Relation to Gricean Maxims | 第32-37页 |
| 2．2．4 Avoidance of Indirect Speech Act in Legal Document | 第37-40页 |
| 2．3 Application of Pragmatic Theory to Legal English Analysis | 第40-45页 |
| 2．3．1 Possibility of the Application | 第40-43页 |
| 2．3．2 Necessity of the Application | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter 3 Analysis of Legal Speech Acts in the English Language of the Law | 第45-79页 |
| 3．1 Remodeling of Legal Speech Acts Taxonomy | 第45-47页 |
| 3．2 Legal Speech Acts Realization Patterns | 第47-79页 |
| 3．2．1 Regulatives: Modal Auxiliaries | 第47-60页 |
| 3．2．1．1 Concerning Authorizing Provisions | 第48-52页 |
| 3．2．1．2 Concerning Obligatory Provisions | 第52-55页 |
| 3．2．1．3 Concerning Prohibitive Provisions | 第55-60页 |
| 3．2．2 Explicit: Performative Verbs | 第60-70页 |
| 3．2．2．1 Performative Verbs Imposing Obligations and Conferring Rights | 第62-65页 |
| 3．2．2．2 Performative verbs naming different legal states or stages of the law proper | 第65-70页 |
| 3．2．3 Implicit: Sentence Types | 第70-76页 |
| 3．2．3．1 Declarative Sentence | 第71-75页 |
| 3．2．3．2 Imperative Sentence | 第75-76页 |
| 3．2．4 Conclusion | 第76-79页 |
| Chapter 4 Speech Acts and Discourse Analysis | 第79-87页 |
| 4．1 Speech Acts Beyond the Sentence | 第79-80页 |
| 4．2 Intertextual Devices | 第80-87页 |
| 4．2．1 Declaring the Existence of the Law | 第80-82页 |
| 4．2．2 Underlying Logical Structure | 第82-87页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第87-91页 |
| Bibliography | 第91-95页 |
