| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Research Objectives | 第9-10页 |
| ·The Collection of Data and Analysis Procedures | 第10页 |
| ·Framework of the Thesis | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter Two Grammatical Metaphor | 第12-28页 |
| ·A Brief Overview of Metaphor Study | 第12-16页 |
| ·Metaphor Study in History | 第12-13页 |
| ·Metaphor Study in Modern Times | 第13-14页 |
| ·Lexical Metaphor and Grammatical Metaphor | 第14-16页 |
| ·Halliday’s Theory of Grammatical Metaphor | 第16-25页 |
| ·Emergence of Grammatical Metaphor | 第17页 |
| ·Theoretical Ground of Grammatical Metaphor | 第17-19页 |
| ·Understandings of “Congruence” | 第19-20页 |
| ·Classification of Grammatical Metaphor | 第20-23页 |
| ·13 Types of Grammatical Metaphor | 第23-25页 |
| ·Other Scholars’Contributions to Theory of Grammatical Metaphor | 第25-28页 |
| ·Martin and Textual Metaphor | 第25-26页 |
| ·Matthiessen’s Treatment with Grammatical Metaphor | 第26页 |
| ·Goatly’s Understanding of Grammatical Metaphor | 第26页 |
| ·Thompson and Grammatical Metaphor | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Three Legal Language and Language of Contract | 第28-35页 |
| ·Studies of Legal Language | 第28-30页 |
| ·Forensic Linguistics | 第28-29页 |
| ·Linguistic Approaches to Legal Language | 第29-30页 |
| ·General Features of Legal Language | 第30-32页 |
| ·Lexical Features | 第30-31页 |
| ·Syntactical Features | 第31-32页 |
| ·Language of Contract | 第32-35页 |
| ·Structure of Contract | 第32-33页 |
| ·Features of Language of Contract | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four A Data-based Analysis of Grammatical Metaphor in of Contract | 第35-55页 |
| ·A Quantitative Analysis of Corpus | 第35-36页 |
| ·Identification of Grammatical Metaphor in the Corpus | 第36-45页 |
| ·13 Types of Grammatical Metaphor in the Corpus | 第36-41页 |
| ·The Favorite Type of Grammatical Metaphor in the Corpus | 第41-42页 |
| ·Findings on the Basis of Identification of Grammatical Metaph | 第42-45页 |
| ·Functions of Grammatical Metaphor in Language of Contract | 第45-53页 |
| ·Nominalization and Its Roles in the Corpus | 第45-50页 |
| ·Functions of Other Types of Grammatical Metaphor | 第50-53页 |
| ·Syndromes of Grammatical Metaphor | 第53-55页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第55-58页 |
| ·Summary and Conclusions | 第55-56页 |
| ·Limmitations and Suggested Areas for Future Researches | 第56-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-60页 |
| Appendix | 第60-68页 |
