| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUTION | 第12-16页 |
| ·Need for the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第16-34页 |
| ·Overview of Ambiguity | 第16-21页 |
| ·Definitions of ambiguity | 第16-18页 |
| ·Development inambiguity research | 第18-19页 |
| ·Features of ambiguity | 第19-21页 |
| ·Overview of Business Contracts | 第21-28页 |
| ·Definitions of business contracts | 第22-23页 |
| ·Classification of business contracts | 第23页 |
| ·Features of business contracts | 第23-24页 |
| ·Structural features of business contracts | 第24页 |
| ·Language characteristics of business contracts | 第24-28页 |
| ·Ambiguity in Business Contracts | 第28-34页 |
| ·Types of ambiguity | 第28-32页 |
| ·The present approach in business contracts | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Three RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第34-38页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第34-35页 |
| ·Data Selection | 第35页 |
| ·Data Processing | 第35-38页 |
| ·Data analysis method | 第35-36页 |
| ·Data classification | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Four SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY WITHIN BUSINESS CONTRACTS AND DISAMBIGUITY STRATEGIES | 第38-67页 |
| ·Syntactic Ambiguity within Business Contracts | 第38-61页 |
| ·Ambiguity in the use of phrasal adjectives | 第38-40页 |
| ·Ambiguity in the use of restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clauses | 第40-44页 |
| ·Ambiguity in the use ofnegative and subordinate clauses | 第44-46页 |
| ·Ambiguity in the use of references | 第46-50页 |
| ·Ambiguity in the use of post-modifiers | 第50-56页 |
| ·Ambiguity in the use of adverbs and adverbial phrases | 第56-60页 |
| ·Ambiguity in the use ofprepositions | 第60-61页 |
| ·Disambiguation Strategies | 第61-67页 |
| ·Rules of phrasal adjectives | 第61页 |
| ·Rules of restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clauses | 第61-62页 |
| ·Rules of negative and subordinate clauses | 第62-63页 |
| ·Rules of references | 第63页 |
| ·Rules of post-modifiers | 第63-65页 |
| ·Rules of adverbs and adverbial phrases | 第65页 |
| ·Rules of prepositions | 第65-67页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第67-69页 |
| ·Main Findings | 第67-68页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study | 第68页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第68-69页 |
| REFERENCES | 第69-71页 |
| 个人简历 在读期间发表的学术论文与研究成果 | 第71页 |
