| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·A definition of context | 第11-12页 |
| ·The objectives of this thesis | 第12-13页 |
| ·Significance of the context study of the legislative language | 第13页 |
| ·Organization of this thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Overview of legislative language | 第15-23页 |
| ·Concepts of the legislative language | 第15-16页 |
| ·Overview of the research of the legislative language both home and abroad | 第16-19页 |
| ·Overview of the research of the legislative language at home | 第16-18页 |
| ·Overview of the legislative language study abroad | 第18-19页 |
| ·Characteristics of Legislative Language | 第19-23页 |
| ·Precision | 第19-20页 |
| ·Vagueness | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter Three Overview of the research on context | 第23-31页 |
| ·Overview of the research on context | 第23-27页 |
| ·Introduction of the research on context | 第23-24页 |
| ·Bronislaw Malinowski's period | 第24页 |
| ·J.R.Firth's period | 第24-26页 |
| ·M.A.K Halliday's contributions | 第26-27页 |
| ·The classification of the context both at home and abroad | 第27-28页 |
| ·J.R.Firth's classification | 第27页 |
| ·Lyons' classification of context | 第27页 |
| ·M.A.K.Halliday's classification | 第27-28页 |
| ·Classification of context at home | 第28-29页 |
| ·He Zhaoxiong's view | 第28页 |
| ·Chen Wangdao's view | 第28-29页 |
| ·Wang Jianping's view | 第29页 |
| ·Categorization of the context based on the study at home and abroad in the present paper | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Four The impact of the context on legislative language | 第31-51页 |
| ·The impact of extra-linguistic context on the legislative language | 第31-39页 |
| ·The impact of the ways of thinking on legislative language | 第31-35页 |
| ·Hypotaxis vs.parataxis | 第32-34页 |
| ·Synthesis vs.analysis | 第34-35页 |
| ·The impact of social environment on legislative language | 第35-39页 |
| ·The impact of politics on legislative language | 第35-37页 |
| ·The impact of the modes of production on the legislative language | 第37-38页 |
| ·The impact of context of the economic system on legislative language | 第38-39页 |
| ·Impact of textual context on legislative language | 第39-51页 |
| ·Classifications of textual contexts | 第39-40页 |
| ·The impact of the field of discourse on legislative language | 第40-45页 |
| ·Field of discourse | 第40-41页 |
| ·The impact of the field of discourse on the transitivity system of legislative language | 第41-45页 |
| ·Material process | 第42-44页 |
| ·Relational processes | 第44-45页 |
| ·The impact of the tenor of discourse on legislative language | 第45-48页 |
| ·Concept of tenor of discourse | 第45-46页 |
| ·Impact of tenor of discourse on the mood system of legislative language | 第46-47页 |
| ·Impact of the tenor of discourse on the modality of legislative language | 第47-48页 |
| ·Mode of discourse and impact thereof on legislative language | 第48-51页 |
| ·Mode of discourse | 第48-49页 |
| ·The impact of the mode of discourse on legislative language | 第49-51页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第51-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-55页 |
