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Acknowledgements |
3-4 |
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Contents |
4-6 |
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Abstract in Chinese |
6-7 |
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Abstract in English |
7-9 |
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1 Introduction |
9-13 |
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2 Literature Review |
13-29 |
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2.1 Critical linguistics |
13-19 |
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2.2 Language and ideology |
19-23 |
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2.3 Language and power |
23-26 |
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2.4 Language, ideology and power |
26-29 |
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3 Methodology and Data |
29-40 |
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3.1 Genre study |
29-33 |
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3.2 Context of insurance contracts |
33-37 |
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3.2.1 Social-historical conditions |
34-35 |
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3.2.2 Present social state |
35-37 |
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3.3 Data |
37-40 |
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4 Generic Intertextuality of Insurance Contracts |
40-54 |
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4.1 The generic intertextual nature of insurance contracts |
40-47 |
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4.2 A critical analysis of generic intertextuality of insurance contracts |
47-51 |
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4.3 Functions of reading positions |
51-54 |
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5 A Critical Analysis of Grammatical structures in Insurance Contracts |
54-67 |
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5.1 Transformation |
54-59 |
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5.1.1 Passivizations in insurance contracts |
55-58 |
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5.1.2 Nominalizations in insurance contracts |
58-59 |
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5.2 Modality in insurance contracts |
59-62 |
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5.2.1 Proposals in insurance contracts |
59-61 |
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5.2.2 Present tense in insurance contracts |
61-62 |
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5.3 Transitivity in insurance contracts 54Acknowledgements |
62-63 |
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5.4 The textual function of theme in insurance contracts |
63-65 |
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5.5 Conclusion of chapter 5 |
65-67 |
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6 Conclusion |
67-70 |
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Reference |
70-72 |
