| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第7-8页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| ·The Description of Legal English | 第8-9页 |
| ·The Description of Hedges | 第9-10页 |
| ·The Necessity and Purposes of the Present Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·The Significance of the Present Study | 第11-12页 |
| 2 Literature Review | 第12-20页 |
| ·Literature Review on the Studies of Hedges | 第12-14页 |
| ·Literature Review on the Studies of Vagueness and Legal Indeterminacy | 第14-20页 |
| ·H.L.A.Hart: The 'Open Texture' of Language | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Epistemic Theory: Vagueness in law cannot Lead to Legal Indeterminacy | 第15页 |
| ·David Lyons: Law has Special Resources that Eliminate any Indeterminacy | 第15-16页 |
| ·Hans Kelsen: No Genuine gaps in the law | 第16-18页 |
| ·Ronald Dworkin: A Single Right Answer to a Legal Dispute | 第18-20页 |
| 3 Theoretical Review on the Present Study | 第20-29页 |
| ·Prince et al's Taxonomy | 第20-21页 |
| ·On Legislation | 第21-22页 |
| ·Categories of Approximators | 第22-29页 |
| ·About, Around, Round and Approximately | 第23-24页 |
| ·Sentence A or Sentence B | 第24页 |
| ·Number A or Number B | 第24-25页 |
| ·Noun Phrase 'or so' and Number 'or so' | 第25页 |
| ·Partial Specifiers | 第25-26页 |
| ·Combinations of Approximators | 第26页 |
| ·Exaggeration | 第26-27页 |
| ·Adverbs of Frequency | 第27页 |
| ·Referring Vaguely to Categories | 第27-29页 |
| 4 A Quantitative Analysis of the Hedges in the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales | 第29-34页 |
| ·The Description of the Present Study | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Hypothesis of the Present Study | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Corpus of the Present Study | 第31页 |
| ·The Purposes of the Present Study | 第31页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analysis | 第31-33页 |
| ·Results and Findings of the Present Study | 第33-34页 |
| 5 General Discussions of the Present Study | 第34-48页 |
| ·Major Linguistic Realizations of the Hedges in the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales | 第34-41页 |
| ·Partial Specifiers | 第34页 |
| ·Combinations of Approximators | 第34-35页 |
| ·Using a Precise Word with an Expression of Hedging | 第35-36页 |
| ·A High Frequency of 'Any' and 'All' | 第36页 |
| ·Hedges Caused by the use of Technical Terms | 第36-37页 |
| ·Hedges Caused by the use of Emotive Words | 第37-41页 |
| ·Taxonomy and Functions of the Hedges in the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales | 第41-44页 |
| ·Adaptors in the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales | 第41-42页 |
| ·Rounders in the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales | 第42-44页 |
| ·Reasons of Using Hedges in the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales | 第44-46页 |
| ·Reasons of Using Approximators in the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales | 第44-45页 |
| ·Reason of not Using Shields in the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales | 第45-46页 |
| ·Use of Hedges and Their Effect on Legal Indeterminacy in the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales | 第46页 |
| ·The Tension Between Certainty and Indeterminacy in the Uniform Commercial Code-Sales | 第46-48页 |
| 6 Implications of the Present Study | 第48-51页 |
| ·Implication for Legal English Teaching | 第48-50页 |
| ·Implications for Draftsmen and Legal Practice | 第50-51页 |
| 7 Conclusion | 第51-53页 |
| ·Summary of the Present Study | 第51页 |
| ·Limitations and Recommendations | 第51-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-56页 |
