| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第11-16页 |
| ·Background of this research | 第11-13页 |
| ·Significance of this research | 第13-14页 |
| ·Organization of this research | 第14-16页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第16-37页 |
| ·Introduction to systemic functional grammar | 第16-20页 |
| ·Contributions of systemic functional grammar theory | 第20-37页 |
| ·Systemic grammar | 第20-23页 |
| ·Functional grammar | 第23-29页 |
| ·Context and register | 第29-34页 |
| ·Discourse analysis under systemic functional grammar | 第34-37页 |
| CHAPTER THREE INTERNATIOANgL BUSINESS CONTRACTS | 第37-45页 |
| ·Basic concept of contracts and international business contracts | 第37-39页 |
| ·Categories of international business contract | 第39-41页 |
| ·Linguistic features of international business contract | 第41-45页 |
| ·Lexical plane | 第41-43页 |
| ·Syntactic plane | 第43-45页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR FUNCTIONAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CONTRACTS | 第45-80页 |
| ·Overview | 第45-49页 |
| ·Discourse analysis of international business contract | 第49-76页 |
| ·Situational context of international business contract | 第51-57页 |
| ·Discourse of international business contract from related meta-functions | 第57-74页 |
| ·Evaluation on discourse of international business contract | 第74-76页 |
| ·An exemplification of the functional discourse analysis of a specific contract clause | 第76-80页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第80-83页 |
| References | 第83-84页 |
