| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-16页 |
| ·Rationale of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Importance of Legal English | 第12-13页 |
| ·A Need For Study of Stylistic Features of Legal English | 第13页 |
| ·Purpose of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research Methodology and Data Collection | 第14页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第16-30页 |
| ·Legal English | 第16-19页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Legal English | 第16-17页 |
| ·Style of Legal English | 第17页 |
| ·Functional Classification of Legal Texts | 第17-19页 |
| ·International Human Rights Convention | 第19-21页 |
| ·International Convention and International Law | 第19-20页 |
| ·International Convention and National Law | 第20页 |
| ·International Human Rights Convention | 第20-21页 |
| ·Studies on Functional Stylistics: A Theoretical Basis | 第21-25页 |
| ·Introduction to Style and Stylistics | 第21-22页 |
| ·Thesis-related Views Proposed by Functional Stylistics | 第22-25页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Functional Stylistics | 第22页 |
| ·Meta-functions Theory | 第22-23页 |
| ·Context Theory | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Relationship between the Meta-functions and Context of Situation | 第24-25页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Stylistic Features of Legal English | 第25-30页 |
| ·Stylistic Features of Legal English abroad | 第25-27页 |
| ·David Mellinkoff’s Views | 第26页 |
| ·Peter M. Tiersma’s Views | 第26-27页 |
| ·Anna Trosborg’Quotations from Several Famous Linguists | 第27页 |
| ·Stylistic Features of Legal English at Home | 第27-30页 |
| ·Zhang Delu’s Views | 第27-28页 |
| ·Liu Shisheng and Zhu Ruiqing’s Views | 第28-30页 |
| CHAPTER THREE CONFIRMATION: CONCRETE REPRESENTATION OF STYLISTIC FEATURES OF LEGAL ENGLISH IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTIONS | 第30-38页 |
| ·At Lexical Level | 第30-33页 |
| ·Frequent Use of Formal Words | 第30-31页 |
| ·Frequent Use of Modal Verb Shall | 第31-33页 |
| ·At Syntactic Level | 第33-38页 |
| ·Declarative Sentences | 第33-34页 |
| ·Long Sentences | 第34-36页 |
| ·Nominalization | 第36-38页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR QUERY: DEVIATION OF STYLISTIC FEATURES OF LEGAL ENGLISH IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTIONS | 第38-60页 |
| ·Absence of the Feature “Frequent Use of Latin Words and Phrases” | 第38-42页 |
| ·Latin Words and Phrases in Legal English | 第38-40页 |
| ·Absence of the Feature “Frequent Use of Latin Words and Phrases” | 第40页 |
| ·Reasons Exploration | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Mode of International Human Rights Conventions | 第40-41页 |
| ·Diction in Intercultural Context | 第41-42页 |
| ·Less Professional Terms | 第42-47页 |
| ·The Classification of Terms From Legal Texts and Their Application | 第42-45页 |
| ·Common Terms with Uncommon Meanings | 第43页 |
| ·Exclusive Technical Terms | 第43-44页 |
| ·Common Terms | 第44-45页 |
| ·Terms from Different Register | 第45页 |
| ·Contrastive Study and the Findings | 第45-47页 |
| ·Reasons Exploration | 第47页 |
| ·Highly-frequent Use Of Vague Words | 第47-56页 |
| ·Vague Words in Legal English | 第47-50页 |
| ·Generality of Legal English Itself | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Need for Evaluation and Emotion Expression in Legal English | 第49-50页 |
| ·Economic, Political, and Cultural Geographic Factors | 第50页 |
| ·Contrastive Studies and the Findings | 第50-51页 |
| ·Reasons Exploration | 第51-56页 |
| ·Ideational Function | 第51-53页 |
| ·Interpersonal Function | 第53-54页 |
| ·Different Cultural Background | 第54-55页 |
| ·The Content of International Human Rights Document | 第55-56页 |
| ·Rare Use of the General Formula “If X, Then Y Shall Do (Or Be) Z | 第56-60页 |
| ·The General Formula “If X, then Y shall do (or be) Z | 第56页 |
| ·Contrastive Study and the Findings | 第56-57页 |
| ·Reasons Exploration | 第57-60页 |
| ·Register | 第57-60页 |
| CHAPER FIVE CONLUSION | 第60-63页 |
| ·Summary of the Present Study | 第60-61页 |
| ·Contributions of the Present Study | 第61页 |
| ·Limitations of the Current Research and Recommendations for Further Study | 第61-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-66页 |
