| 中文摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·A General Description of the Thesis | 第11页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第11-12页 |
| ·Overall Structure of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-30页 |
| ·Jespersen’s Theory of Nominalization | 第14-20页 |
| ·Jespersen’s perspective of nominalization | 第15-16页 |
| ·The verbal nexus-words and predicative nexus-words | 第16-17页 |
| ·Rank—the approach to word transforming | 第17页 |
| ·Junction | 第17-18页 |
| ·Nexus | 第18-19页 |
| ·Nexus-substantive and Rank-shift | 第19-20页 |
| ·Halliday’s Theories Related to Nominalization | 第20-26页 |
| ·Survey of Halliday’s Related Theories | 第20-21页 |
| ·Halliday’s Initial Treatment of Nominalization in Grammatical Metaphor | 第21-22页 |
| ·Halliday’s Theory of Grammatical Metaphor | 第22-23页 |
| ·Classification and Reclassfication of GM Concerning Nominalization | 第23-26页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Nominalization and Grammatical Metaphor | 第26-30页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Nominalization and Grammatical Metaphor Overseas | 第26-27页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Nominalization and Grammatical Metaphor at Home | 第27-30页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第30-38页 |
| ·Research questions | 第30页 |
| ·Method | 第30-31页 |
| ·Data source | 第31-36页 |
| ·English Legal Discourse | 第31-35页 |
| ·U.K Companies Act | 第35-36页 |
| ·Data collection | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Four Theoretical Analysis and Findings | 第38-50页 |
| ·Analogical Analysis on Legal English Discourse from Perspective of Nominalization | 第38-44页 |
| ·Nominalization in Companies Act from Perspective of Jespersen | 第38-42页 |
| ·Nominalization in Companies Act from Perspective of Halliday’s GM Thoery | 第42-44页 |
| ·The Effect of Jespersen’s Theory of Nominalization on That of Halliday’s | 第44-47页 |
| ·Limitation of Jespersen’s classification of nominalization | 第47-48页 |
| ·Effects of Nominalization in Legal English Discourse | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第50-53页 |
| ·Summary of Major findings | 第50-51页 |
| ·Implications of Research | 第51页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for the Further Research | 第51-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-56页 |
| Appendix | 第56-59页 |
| 作者简介 | 第59-60页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第60页 |
