| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One: Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·Overview | 第11页 |
| ·Significance and Rationale of the research | 第11-13页 |
| ·Structure of the thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Two: Literature review | 第14-34页 |
| ·The characteristics of legal language from the perspective of linguistics | 第14-19页 |
| ·An overview of the legal language | 第15-16页 |
| ·Concrete and detailed characteristics | 第16-19页 |
| ·Forensic linguistics | 第19-22页 |
| ·Language and law: the relations | 第19页 |
| ·Forensic linguistics | 第19-22页 |
| ·Semantic theories in linguistics | 第22-31页 |
| ·Overview: semantics, formal and lexical semantics | 第23-24页 |
| ·Theories in formal semantics | 第24-28页 |
| ·Theories in lexical semantics | 第28-31页 |
| ·Connection of the above disciplines and the possibility of their combination in analysis | 第31-32页 |
| ·The relationship between formal and lexical semantics | 第32-34页 |
| ·Formal semantics: the sentential meaning | 第32页 |
| ·Lexical semantics: the word meaning | 第32页 |
| ·The relationship | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Three: Theoretical frame: formal and lexical analysis of the legal language | 第34-46页 |
| ·Formal semantic studies | 第34-38页 |
| ·Lexical semantic studies | 第38-46页 |
| ·Generative lexicon | 第39-46页 |
| Chapter Four: Research conducted with legal texts | 第46-61页 |
| ·The legal texts and a brief analysis on the language characteristics | 第46-50页 |
| ·Formal semantic analysis | 第50-54页 |
| ·Lexical semantic analysis | 第54-56页 |
| ·Analysis from both formal and lexical perspective | 第56-61页 |
| Chapter Five: Conclusion | 第61-63页 |
| ·Findings | 第61-62页 |
| ·Limitations | 第62-63页 |
| References | 第63-68页 |
