| Introduction | 第1-14页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Legal English | 第14-31页 |
| ·Law and legal language | 第14-16页 |
| ·The definition of legal English | 第16-18页 |
| ·Stylistic features of legal English | 第18-22页 |
| ·Formal and solemn | 第19页 |
| ·Compact and normative | 第19-20页 |
| ·Precise and unambiguous | 第20-22页 |
| ·The major linguistic techniques of legal English for precision | 第22-31页 |
| ·The lexical ways | 第22-27页 |
| ·The employment of archaisms | 第22-24页 |
| ·The employment of Latin and French loan words and phrases | 第24页 |
| ·Use of technical terms | 第24-25页 |
| ·Use of synonyms or near-synonyms | 第25-26页 |
| ·Preference for lexical repetition to pronoun reference | 第26-27页 |
| ·Grammatical features | 第27-31页 |
| ·Long sentences | 第27-28页 |
| ·Application of restrictive adverbial modifiers | 第28-29页 |
| ·Nominalization | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Vagueness in legal English | 第31-86页 |
| ·Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy language theory | 第31-40页 |
| ·Fuzzy set theory | 第31-34页 |
| ·Fuzzy language theory | 第34-40页 |
| ·Language is fuzzy | 第35-36页 |
| ·Why language is fuzzy | 第36-40页 |
| ·What is vagueness in language? | 第40-49页 |
| ·General points of view for vagueness in language | 第40-43页 |
| ·Features of vagueness in language | 第43-46页 |
| ·Definitions of vagueness in language | 第46-49页 |
| ·Vagueness in legal language | 第49-72页 |
| ·The reflection of vagueness in legal language | 第49-55页 |
| ·The semantic analysis of vagueness in legal language | 第55-66页 |
| ·Fuzziness in the antonymous field | 第55-61页 |
| ·Fuzziness in the hyponymous field | 第61-66页 |
| ·Vagueness caused by the use of emotive words | 第66-72页 |
| ·The reasons for the existence of vagueness in legal English | 第72-86页 |
| ·The requirements of the legislation | 第73-77页 |
| ·The difficulty in communication | 第77-81页 |
| ·Needs and expectations of the changing society | 第81-86页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Dialectic Relationship between Precision and Vagueness in Legal Language | 第86-100页 |
| ·Antithesis between precision and vagueness | 第87-93页 |
| ·Precision: an opponent of ambiguity and flexibility | 第87-88页 |
| ·Vagueness: a patron of ambiguity and flexibility | 第88-90页 |
| ·Precision and vagueness: antithetical opposites | 第90-93页 |
| ·Unity between precision and vagueness | 第93-100页 |
| ·Precision and vagueness: mutually dependent | 第93-94页 |
| ·Precision and vagueness: complementary to each other | 第94-97页 |
| ·Precision and vagueness: dynamic interplay between each other | 第97-100页 |
| Conclusion | 第100-101页 |
| Reference | 第101-104页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第104页 |
