| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in English | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-19页 |
| ·An overview on the speech act theory | 第8-13页 |
| ·Austin's speech act theory | 第8-10页 |
| ·The development of the speech act theory by Searle | 第10-11页 |
| ·Indirect speech acts | 第11-12页 |
| ·Summary | 第12-13页 |
| ·The present research states of the legal speech acts | 第13-15页 |
| ·The foreign situation | 第13-14页 |
| ·The domestic situation | 第14-15页 |
| ·The significance of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·The theoretical significance | 第15-16页 |
| ·The practical significance | 第16页 |
| ·Questions for study | 第16-17页 |
| ·The framework | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two English Legal Texts | 第19-26页 |
| ·The difference between a discourse, an utterance and a text | 第19-20页 |
| ·An introduction to legal texts | 第20-21页 |
| ·An understanding of English legal texts | 第21-22页 |
| ·The categorization of legal texts | 第22-26页 |
| ·Legislative texts | 第23-24页 |
| ·Judicial texts | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three The Speech Acts in Legal Texts | 第26-49页 |
| ·The conditions that a speech act must meet in legal texts | 第26-28页 |
| ·The speech act verbs in legal texts | 第28-29页 |
| ·The conventionalized expressing devices of English legal speech acts | 第29-31页 |
| ·The speech acts in legislative texts | 第31-33页 |
| ·The speech acts in judicial texts | 第33-36页 |
| ·The speech acts in other legal texts | 第36-38页 |
| ·The classification of the speech acts in English legal texts | 第38-47页 |
| ·Regulatives | 第39-40页 |
| ·Declarations | 第40-41页 |
| ·Behabitives | 第41-43页 |
| ·Verdictives | 第43页 |
| ·Directives | 第43-45页 |
| ·Requestives | 第45-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47页 |
| ·Absence of indirect speech acts in legislative texts | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Four The Functions of the Speech Acts in Legal Texts | 第49-54页 |
| ·The means by which a speech act performs the functions in legal texts | 第49-53页 |
| ·Conferring rights | 第51页 |
| ·Imposing obligations | 第51-52页 |
| ·Regulating behavior | 第52-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-54页 |
| Chapter Five The Characteristics of the Speech Acts in English Legal Texts | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-60页 |
