| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-22页 |
| ·An Overview of Vague Study | 第14-17页 |
| ·Definition of Vagueness | 第14-15页 |
| ·Semantic Vagueness and Pragmatic Vagueness | 第15-17页 |
| ·An Overview of Legal English | 第17-19页 |
| ·Definition of Legal English | 第17-18页 |
| ·Relevant Studies of Legal English | 第18-19页 |
| ·Relevant Studies of Vagueness in Legal English | 第19-20页 |
| ·Relevant Studies of Vagueness in Legal English from Pragmatic View | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Three Vagueness in Legal English | 第22-29页 |
| ·Necessity of Vagueness in Legal English | 第22-24页 |
| ·Precision of Legal English | 第22-23页 |
| ·Vagueness as an Aid to Precision | 第23-24页 |
| ·Realization of Vagueness in Legal English | 第24-28页 |
| ·Semantic Vagueness in Legal English | 第24-27页 |
| ·Pragmatic Vagueness in Legal English | 第27-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter Four Pragmatic Analysis of Vagueness in Legislative English | 第29-41页 |
| ·Verschueren's Linguistic Adaptation Theory | 第29-31页 |
| ·Three Properties of Language | 第29-30页 |
| ·Four Aspects of Adaptation | 第30-31页 |
| ·Adaptation Theory in Present Study | 第31页 |
| ·Vague Language Employed as Adaptation to Structural Objects | 第31-35页 |
| ·Adaptation to Style | 第32-33页 |
| ·Adaptation to Utterance-building Ingredients | 第33-35页 |
| ·Vague Language Employed as Adaptation to Contextual Correlates | 第35-40页 |
| ·Adaptation to Mental World | 第35-37页 |
| ·Adaptation to Social World | 第37-39页 |
| ·Adaptation to Physical World | 第39-40页 |
| ·Summary | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Five Pragmatic Analysis of Vagueness in Judicial English | 第41-54页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature and Vagueness in Judicial English | 第41-43页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature | 第41-42页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature and Vagueness in Judicial English | 第42-43页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle and Vagueness in Judicial English | 第43-49页 |
| ·Cooperative Principle | 第43-44页 |
| ·Application of CP to the Use of Vagueness in Judicial English | 第44-49页 |
| ·Communicative Effects of Vagueness in Judicial English | 第49-53页 |
| ·Deliberately Withholding Information | 第50-51页 |
| ·Lacking Specific Information | 第51页 |
| ·Politeness | 第51-52页 |
| ·Using Language Persuasively | 第52页 |
| ·Self-protection | 第52-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-54页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| Bibliography | 第56-60页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第60-61页 |
| Papers Published During the Study for M.A.Degree | 第61页 |
