| Abstract in Chinese | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-11页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| 2 The definition and classification of contract | 第13-16页 |
| ·The definition of contract | 第13-14页 |
| ·The classification of contract | 第14-16页 |
| 3 The definition of contract English | 第16-18页 |
| ·The definition of legal English | 第16-17页 |
| ·The definition of contract English | 第17-18页 |
| 4 The definition of style | 第18-19页 |
| 5 The stylistic features of contract English | 第19-50页 |
| ·The lexical features | 第19-36页 |
| ·Formal words | 第19-21页 |
| ·Archaisms | 第21-26页 |
| ·Archaisms beginning with here (here + prep.) | 第24页 |
| ·Archaisms beginning with there (there + prep.) | 第24页 |
| ·Archaisms beginning with where (where + prep.) | 第24-25页 |
| ·Other archaisms in contract | 第25-26页 |
| ·Technical terms | 第26-28页 |
| ·Common words with uncommon meanings | 第28-30页 |
| ·Reduplication of synonyms, near-synonyms or relevant words | 第30-32页 |
| ·Deliberate use of vague words | 第32-33页 |
| ·Avoidance of pronouns | 第33-36页 |
| ·The syntactic and grammatical features | 第36-47页 |
| ·Declarative sentence | 第36-37页 |
| ·Long complex sentence | 第37-39页 |
| ·Frequent use of modal verb shall | 第39-41页 |
| ·Unusual sentence structure | 第41-43页 |
| ·Nominalization | 第43-45页 |
| ·Simple present tense | 第45页 |
| ·Appropriate use of the active voice and the passive voice | 第45-47页 |
| ·Other features of legal usage in contract | 第47-50页 |
| ·words-and-numerals approach used to convey numbers | 第47-48页 |
| ·Impersonal Constructions | 第48-49页 |
| ·The capitalization of some nouns in contract | 第49-50页 |
| 6 Implications | 第50-58页 |
| ·Implications for drafting English contract | 第50-51页 |
| ·Implications for reading English contract | 第51-56页 |
| ·Difficulty in reading the long English contract | 第51-55页 |
| ·Difficulty in reading the long and complex sentences | 第55-56页 |
| ·Difficulty in interpreting the archaic words | 第56页 |
| ·Difficulty in understanding the technical terms | 第56页 |
| ·Implications for teaching English contract | 第56-58页 |
| 7 Conclusion | 第58-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-63页 |
