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Introduction
Chapter One Literature Review
1.1 An Overview of Vagueness
1.1.1 Definition of Vagueness
1.1.2 Semantic Vagueness and Pragmatic Vagueness
1.2 An Overview of Legal English
1.2.1 Definition of Legal English
1.2.2 Relevant Studies of Legal English
1.3 Relevant Studies of Vagueness in Legal English
Chapter Two Necessity and Realization of Vagueness in Legal English
2.1 Necessity of Vagueness in Legal English
2.1.1 Precision of Legal English
2.1.2 Vagueness as an Aid to Precision
2.2 Realization of Vagueness in Legal English
2.2.1 Semantic Vagueness in Legal English
2.2.2 Pragmatic Vagueness in Legal English
2.3 Summary
Chapter Three Theories for Vagueness Analysis in Legal English from a Perspective
3.1 Jef Verschueren's Linguistic Adaptation Theory(LAT)
3.1.1 The Process of Making Choices
3.1.2 Three Properties of Language
3.1.3 Four Atgles of Investigation
3.2 Vague Language Employed as Adaptation to Structural Objects in Legal
3.2.1 Adaptation to Style
3.2.2 Adaptation to Utterance-building Ingredients
3.3 Vague Language Employed as Adaptation to Contextual Correlates in Legal
3.3.1 Adaptation to Mental World
3.3.2 Adaptation to Social World
3.3.3 Adaptation to Physical World
3.4 H.P.Grice's Cooperative Principle(CP)
3.4.1 The Maxims of Cooperative Principle
3.4.2 The Application of Cooperative Principle in Vague Expressions of Legal
3.5 Geoffrey Leeeh's Politeness Principle(PV)
3.5.1 The Maxims of Politeness Principle
3.5.2 The Application of Politeness Principle in Vague Expressions of Legal
3.6 Smmnary
Chapter Four The Application of Vague Expressions in Legal Enmlish Within the Framework of LAT,PP,and CP
4.1 The Violation of CP for Linguistic Adaptation
4.1.1 The Violation of CP as People's Epistemic Limitation
4.1.2 The Violation of CP for the Process of Making Choice
4.1.3 The Cases of the Violation of CP in Legal English
4.2 The Observation of PP for Linguistic Adaptation
4.2.1 Adaptation to the Emotions
4.2.2 Adaptation to the Self-protection
4.2.3 Adaptation to Satisfying Others
4.3 Summary
Chapter Five Pragmatic Functions of Vague Language in Legal English
5.1 Deliberately Withholding Information
5.2 Making up for Lacking Specific Information
5.3 Self-protection
5.4 Filling the Gap
5.5 Being Polite
Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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