| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-21页 |
| ·The importance of legal discourse | 第13-18页 |
| ·The need for research of legal discourse | 第13-15页 |
| ·Brief review on legal discourse study | 第15-18页 |
| ·Aims of the thesis | 第18-19页 |
| ·Framework of the present thesis and data collection | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Power Consciousness Inherent in Legal Discourse | 第21-30页 |
| ·Previous studies on power,language and law | 第21-23页 |
| ·The influence of legal culture upon language of law | 第23-28页 |
| ·The concept of legal culture | 第24-25页 |
| ·Western legal culture | 第25-26页 |
| ·Chinese legal culture | 第26-28页 |
| ·Power-legalization relevant to legal language | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Three An Analytical Tool for Power Realization | 第30-52页 |
| ·The origins and schools of discourse analysis(DA) | 第30-33页 |
| ·Critical discourse analysis(CDA) | 第33-37页 |
| ·Ideology | 第34-35页 |
| ·Power | 第35-36页 |
| ·Social situation | 第36-37页 |
| ·A systematic functional approach to DA | 第37-40页 |
| ·An analytical tool:critical-functional analysis of legal discourse | 第40-50页 |
| ·Current studies on legal discourse analysis | 第40-42页 |
| ·Four approaches to analyzing legal discourse in present thesis | 第42-50页 |
| ·Analysis of logical structure | 第42-44页 |
| ·Analysis of modality | 第44-47页 |
| ·Analysis of cohesion | 第47-49页 |
| ·Analysis of genre | 第49-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Four Critical-Functional Power Analysis of English and Chinese Legal Discourses:Exemplified with GATS and CISG | 第52-75页 |
| ·Power realization in logical function of legal discourse | 第52-61页 |
| ·Logical structures in legal discourse | 第52-56页 |
| ·Analysis of logical function | 第56-60页 |
| ·Power in logical function | 第60-61页 |
| ·Power realization in modality of legal discourse | 第61-68页 |
| ·Modality of legal discourse | 第61-65页 |
| ·Power analysis of modality in legal discourse | 第65-68页 |
| ·Power realization in cohesion of legal discourse | 第68-70页 |
| ·Power realization from macroscopic view | 第70-75页 |
| ·Genre in legal discourse | 第70-73页 |
| ·Power of genre in legal discourse | 第73-75页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第75-78页 |
| ·Major conclusions of the present author's study | 第75-76页 |
| ·Implications and suggestions for further research | 第76-78页 |
| Notes | 第78-79页 |
| Bibliography | 第79-82页 |
