| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第9-11页 |
| ·General Statement | 第9页 |
| ·Rationale for the Study | 第9-10页 |
| ·Purpose of the Study | 第10页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE RE VIEW | 第11-22页 |
| ·Features of Metaphor | 第11页 |
| ·Research on Metaphor in Western Countries and China | 第11-14页 |
| ·Research on Metaphor in Western Countries | 第11-13页 |
| ·Phases of Metaphor in Western Countries | 第12页 |
| ·Views on Western Metaphorical Research | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research on Metaphor by Chinese Scholars | 第13-14页 |
| ·A Survey of the Grammatical Metaphor Studies | 第14-16页 |
| ·Foreign Scholars' Contributions to Grammatical Metaphor | 第14-15页 |
| ·Domestic Scholars' Contributions to Grammatical Metaphor | 第15-16页 |
| ·Systemic-functional Grammar | 第16-22页 |
| ·Systemic Grammar | 第16-18页 |
| ·Functional Grammar | 第18-22页 |
| CHAPTER THREE LAW REPORTS AND LEGAL LANGUAGE | 第22-29页 |
| ·Law Reports of Common Law Countries | 第22-23页 |
| ·Functions of Law Reports | 第23-24页 |
| ·Nature of Legal Language | 第24-25页 |
| ·Features of Legal English | 第25-29页 |
| ·Lexical Features | 第25-27页 |
| ·Syntactic Features | 第27页 |
| ·Grammatical Features | 第27-29页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR IN LAWREPORTS | 第29-41页 |
| ·Metaphor and Buried Metaphor in Law Reports | 第29-30页 |
| ·Grammatical Metaphor in Law Reports | 第30-41页 |
| ·Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Law Reports | 第30-36页 |
| ·Grammatical Metaphor Realized by Nominalization | 第33-34页 |
| ·Grammatical Metaphor Realized by Logical Function | 第34-36页 |
| ·Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor in Law Reports | 第36-38页 |
| ·Grammatical Metaphor Realized by Mood | 第36-37页 |
| ·Grammatical Metaphor Realized by Modality | 第37-38页 |
| ·Textual Grammatical Metaphor in Law Reports | 第38-41页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE FUNCTIONS OF GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR IN LAWREPORTS | 第41-48页 |
| ·As the Tool for Objectiveness | 第41-43页 |
| ·As the Tool for Formality and Authoritativeness | 第43-44页 |
| ·As the Tool for Information Condensation | 第44-45页 |
| ·As the Tool for Discourse Cohesion | 第45-48页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第48-50页 |
| References | 第50-51页 |
