| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-11页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第11-17页 |
| ·MAIN ARGUMENTS | 第11-13页 |
| ·RATIONALE | 第13-15页 |
| ·STRUCTURE | 第15-17页 |
| CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-27页 |
| ·SPEECH ACT | 第17-18页 |
| ·LEGAL LANGUAGE AND LEGISLATIVE LANGUAGE | 第18-19页 |
| ·General Charateristics of Legal Language | 第18页 |
| ·General Charateristics of Legislative Language | 第18-19页 |
| ·LEGAL SPEECH ACTS | 第19-22页 |
| ·The Nature and Taxonomy of Legal Speech Acts | 第19-20页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Legal Speech Acts | 第20-22页 |
| ·LEGISLATIVE SPEECH ACTS | 第22-25页 |
| ·The Nature and Taxonomy of Legislative Speech Acts | 第22-23页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Legislative Speech Acts | 第23-25页 |
| ·RESEARCH QUESTIONS | 第25-27页 |
| CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第27-43页 |
| ·DATA SELECTION | 第27-29页 |
| ·COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND MANUAL TAGGING | 第29-31页 |
| ·THE CATEGORIZATIONS OF INDICATORS OF LEGISLATIVE SPEECH ACTS | 第31-43页 |
| ·Performative Verbs Serve as Indicators of Legislative Speech Acts | 第32-33页 |
| ·Modal Verbs Serve as Indicators of Legislative Speech Acts | 第33-35页 |
| ·Contextual Devices Helps Build Legislative Speech Acts | 第35-43页 |
| CHAPTER 4 DATA ANALYSIS | 第43-57页 |
| ·CHINESE STATUTORY LAWS | 第43-50页 |
| ·Occuring Frequencies of Indicators of Legislative Speech Acts | 第43-46页 |
| ·Description of Indicators of Legislative Speech Acts | 第46-50页 |
| ·ENGLISH STATUTORY LAWS | 第50-57页 |
| ·Occuring Frequencies of Indicators of Legislative Speech Acts | 第51-52页 |
| ·Description of Indicators of Legislative Speech Acts | 第52-57页 |
| CHAPTER 5 COMPARATIVE STUDIES | 第57-68页 |
| ·CONTRAST AND COMPARISON | 第57-63页 |
| ·Hearer-oriented or Speaker-based | 第57-59页 |
| ·Indirect Strategies or Direct Strategies | 第59-60页 |
| ·Permission,Right,Obligation and Prohibition | 第60-61页 |
| ·Contextual devices | 第61-63页 |
| ·EXPLANATIONS FOR THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES | 第63-68页 |
| ·Similarities | 第63-64页 |
| ·Differences | 第64-68页 |
| CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION | 第68-71页 |
| References | 第71-73页 |
| ACKNOLEDGEMENTS | 第73-74页 |
