Contents Abstract i 摘要 ii Chapter One Introduction .1 Research Background 1 Rationale and Purpose ofthe Present Study ..1 Methodology and Data Collection ..3 ofthe Present Thesis .4 Summary ..4 Chapter Two Literature Review. . . . . . . . ..5 Critical Discourse Analysis 5 Current Situation ofthe Research at Home and Abroad 6 Studies Abroad 6 Studies in China .7 Three Major Issues ofCDA ..8 Ideology .8 Power .9 Social Situation l O Relationship among Language,Power and Ideology 1 1 Fairclough’S Three—Dimensional Framework .12 Halliday’S Systemic Functional Grammar 14 Ideational Function .16 Transitivity .16 Transformation .17 Classification .... 1 8 Interpersonal Function ..19 Mood .19 Modality ..1 9 I Summary 。 _ .20 Chapter Three Legal Discourse and its Features 22 Solemnity ··23 Strictness 23 Objectivity 24 Preciseness 24 Summary ; ··25 ChaDter Four Critical Analysis of Legal Discourse ”26 Critical Analysis at the Level ofDescription ··26 C1assification .26 Utilization ofCore Items in Legal Discourse ..27 Vagueness in Legal Discourse ·29 1 Modality 3 Transitivity ··40 Summary ”44 Critical Analysis at the Level of Interpretation and Explanation ·45 The Level ofInterpretation .45 Contents and Arrangements of Legal Discourse 45 Participants and Their Relationships 47 The Level of Explanation 48 ·49 Chapter Five Conclusion ., ·50 Major Conlclusions of the Present Study ·50 Implications ofthe Present Study ·51 Limitations and Suggestions ofthe Present Study ··51 .52 Acknowledgements ··56 在读期间发表的学术论文及研究成果 ·57 that legal language has ,the power possessed by legal language is does legal language express its pow
