| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·Rationale for the study | 第10-12页 |
| ·Thesis statement | 第12-14页 |
| ·Outline of the study | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Linguistic Features of Legal English | 第16-28页 |
| ·General introduction of legal English | 第16-17页 |
| ·Linguistic features of legal English | 第17-26页 |
| ·Stylistic features of legal English | 第18-20页 |
| ·Precision | 第18-19页 |
| ·Formalness | 第19-20页 |
| ·Conciseness | 第20页 |
| ·Lexical features of legal English | 第20-25页 |
| ·Use of archaic words | 第21-22页 |
| ·Use of loan words | 第22-23页 |
| ·Use of common words with uncommon meanings | 第23-24页 |
| ·Use of terms of art | 第24页 |
| ·Use of formal words | 第24-25页 |
| ·Syntactic features of legal English | 第25-26页 |
| ·Long and complicated sentences | 第25-26页 |
| ·Redundancy | 第26页 |
| ·Review of the historical development of legal English | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Three Plain Legal English | 第28-40页 |
| ·The definition of plain English and plain legal English | 第28-29页 |
| ·Plain English | 第28-29页 |
| ·Plain legal English | 第29页 |
| ·A brief introduction to the modern plain English movement | 第29-31页 |
| ·The movement towards plain legal English | 第31-34页 |
| ·Criticism and defense of plain legal English | 第34-38页 |
| ·The old criticism | 第34-36页 |
| ·The new criticism | 第36-38页 |
| ·Plain legal English: simplicity and precision | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Four Reflection on Plain Legal English | 第40-58页 |
| ·Plain language in legislative drafting | 第41-49页 |
| ·The style of the legislative drafting | 第41-42页 |
| ·Unwise assumptions made by proponents of plain legislative drafting. | 第42-46页 |
| ·Ordinary people having a desire to read legislation | 第42-43页 |
| ·Plain language legislation functioning effectively | 第43-46页 |
| ·Necessity of using precise language in legislative drafting | 第46-48页 |
| ·Explanatory materials as a vehicle of communication | 第48-49页 |
| ·Plain language in consumer documents | 第49-53页 |
| ·Necessity of using plain language in consumer documents | 第50-52页 |
| ·Remaining challenges | 第52-53页 |
| ·Plain language in jury instructions | 第53-58页 |
| ·Necessity of using plain language in jury instructions | 第54-55页 |
| ·Capital instructions | 第55-58页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第58-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-64页 |
