摘要 | 第4-5页 |
Abstract | 第5-6页 |
Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-15页 |
1.1 Background of the Research | 第11-12页 |
1.2 Purpose of the Research | 第12页 |
1.3 Significance of the Research | 第12-13页 |
1.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-28页 |
2.1 Hedges | 第15-23页 |
2.1.1 Definition of Hedges | 第15-17页 |
2.1.2 Classification of Hedges | 第17-21页 |
2.1.3 Previous Studies on Hedges in Legal Discourse | 第21-23页 |
2.2 Contract Law | 第23-28页 |
2.2.1 Definition of Contract Law | 第23-25页 |
2.2.2 Functions and Status of the Contract Law | 第25-26页 |
2.2.3 Previous Studies on Hedges in Contract Law | 第26-28页 |
Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第28-36页 |
3.1 Research Questions | 第28-29页 |
3.2 Construction of the Corpus | 第29-31页 |
3.2.1 The Contract Law of the People’s Republic of China (CLPRC) | 第29-30页 |
3.2.2 The American Contract Law (ACL) | 第30-31页 |
3.3 Tools for Data Analysis | 第31-32页 |
3.4 Adoption of Hyland’s Classification of Hedges | 第32-33页 |
3.5 Research Procedures | 第33-36页 |
3.5.1 Retrieving the Hedges | 第33-34页 |
3.5.2 Identifying the Retrieved Hedges | 第34-35页 |
3.5.3 Processing Data | 第35-36页 |
Chapter 4 Results and Discussion | 第36-64页 |
4.1 Overview | 第36-42页 |
4.1.1 Overall Frequency and Distribution of Hedges in CLPRC and ACL | 第36-40页 |
4.1.2 Hedges with the Highest Frequency of Different Categories in CLPRC and ACL | 第40-42页 |
4.2 Different Frequency and Distribution of Hedges in CLPRC and ACL | 第42-58页 |
4.2.1 Epistemic Modal Verbs | 第42-46页 |
4.2.2 Epistemic Lexical Verbs | 第46-50页 |
4.2.3 Epistemic Lexical Adjectives | 第50-54页 |
4.2.4 Epistemic Lexical Adverbs | 第54-56页 |
4.2.5 Epistemic Lexical Nouns | 第56-57页 |
4.2.6 Non-lexical Hedges | 第57-58页 |
4.3 Reasons for the Differences of Hedges in CLPRC and ACL | 第58-61页 |
4.3.1 Different Legal System in China and the USA | 第58-59页 |
4.3.2 Linguistic Variations in the Two Languages | 第59-60页 |
4.3.3 Socio-cultural Factors in the Use of Hedges | 第60-61页 |
4.4 Inspirations for Translating Hedges in Laws and Regulations of China | 第61-64页 |
4.4.1 Problems Caused by the Overused Hedges in Laws and Regulations of China | 第61-62页 |
4.4.2 Enlightenment to the Legal Translators | 第62-64页 |
Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第64-67页 |
5.1 Major Findings | 第64-65页 |
5.2 Limitations of the Study | 第65页 |
5.3 Suggestions for the Further Studies | 第65-67页 |
Bibliography | 第67-70页 |
Acknowledgements | 第70-71页 |
Appendix Ⅰ: Hedges in CLPRC and ACL | 第71-76页 |
Appendix Ⅱ: UCREL CLAWS7 Tagsets | 第76-80页 |
攻读硕士学位期间科研成果 | 第80页 |