本站原创Acknowledgements4-6
Abstract6-8
摘要8-11
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION11-16
1.1 Background of this research11-13
1.2 Significance of this research13-14
1.3 Organization of this research14-16
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW16-37
2.1 Introduction to systemic functional grammar16-20
2.2 Contributions of systemic functional grammar theory20-37
2.2.1 Systemic grammar20-23
2.2.2 Functional grammar23-29
2.2.3 Context and register29-34
2.2.4 Discourse analysis under systemic functional grammar34-37
CHAPTER THREE INTERNATIOANgL BUSINESS CONTRACTS37-45
3.1 Basic concept of contracts and international business contracts37-39
3.2 Categories of international business contract39-41
3.3 Linguistic features of international business contract41-45
3.3.1 Lexical plane41-43
3.3.2 Syntactic plane43-45
CHAPTER FOUR FUNCTIONAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CONTRACTS45-80
4.1 Overview45-49
4.2 Discourse analysis of international business contract49-76
4.2.1 Situational context of international business contract51-57
4.2.2 Discourse of international business contract from related meta-functions57-74
4.2.3 Evaluation on discourse of international business contract74-76
4.3 An exemppfication of the functional discourse analysis of a specific contract clause76-80
CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION80-83
References83-84