| Acknowledgments | 第1-4页 |
| Abbreviations | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-19页 |
| ·Channels for Business Communication | 第10-11页 |
| ·Written Communication in International Trade | 第11-13页 |
| ·International Business E-mails (ITE) | 第13-15页 |
| ·Purpose of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Overall Organization of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第19-28页 |
| ·Nature and Classification of ESP | 第19-20页 |
| ·Business English | 第20-23页 |
| ·Classification of Business English: EGBP and ESBP | 第20-21页 |
| ·Nature of Business English | 第21-23页 |
| ·Studies on Business English Overseas | 第23-25页 |
| ·Written Discourse Analysis: Register and Rhetorical Study | 第23页 |
| ·Socio-Cultural Orientation | 第23-24页 |
| ·Genre Studies in EBP | 第24-25页 |
| ·Studies on Business English in China | 第25-28页 |
| ·Analysis of Business Correspondence | 第25-26页 |
| ·Descriptions of EGBP Discourse | 第26-27页 |
| ·Limitations of BE researches in China | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Genre Analysis: Theoretical Framework | 第28-36页 |
| ·Review of Genre: Definitions and Viewpoints | 第28-31页 |
| ·Definitions | 第28-29页 |
| ·Viewpoints from Applied Linguistics | 第29-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31页 |
| ·Genre Analysis: an Overview | 第31-33页 |
| ·Analytical Model for this Study | 第33-36页 |
| ·Bhatia's Framework of Analyzing Genres | 第33-34页 |
| ·Strengths and Limitations of Bhatia's Framework | 第34页 |
| ·Model for Analyzing ITE | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter 4 A Study of ITE: A Genre Analysis Approach | 第36-58页 |
| ·Corpus | 第36页 |
| ·Method of Analysis | 第36-37页 |
| ·Discourse Community | 第37-39页 |
| ·Communicative Purpose(s) | 第39-41页 |
| ·Generic Structure of ITE | 第41-57页 |
| ·E-mails of Routine Business Communication | 第41-51页 |
| ·Nature of Routine Business Communication | 第41-42页 |
| ·Typical Exemplars | 第42-46页 |
| ·Structural Description | 第46-51页 |
| ·E-mails of Business Negotiation | 第51-57页 |
| ·Nature of Business Negotiation | 第51页 |
| ·Typical Exemplars | 第51-55页 |
| ·Structural Description | 第55-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-58页 |
| Chapter 5 Stylistic Features of ITE | 第58-78页 |
| ·Conversational Nature of E-mail Messages | 第58-59页 |
| ·Styles and Stylistic Analysis | 第59-61页 |
| ·Definition of Style | 第59-60页 |
| ·Aim of Stylistic Analysis | 第60-61页 |
| ·Stylistic Features of ITE | 第61-69页 |
| ·Criteria for the Selection of Samples | 第61-62页 |
| ·Styles of Opening | 第62-63页 |
| ·Grammatical Features | 第63-67页 |
| ·Distribution of Syntactic Structures | 第63-64页 |
| ·Tenses and Voices | 第64页 |
| ·Contracted Forms | 第64-65页 |
| ·Informal Sentence Patterns | 第65-66页 |
| ·Grammar Mistakes | 第66-67页 |
| ·Lexical Features | 第67-68页 |
| ·Abbreviations | 第67-68页 |
| ·Informal Terms | 第68页 |
| ·Summary | 第68-69页 |
| ·A Comparison Study of Authentic Business E-mails and "Specimen Business Letters" in Business Communication Books | 第69-78页 |
| ·Sample Selection | 第69-70页 |
| ·Comparative Analysis | 第70-75页 |
| ·Mail of Establishing Business Relations | 第70-72页 |
| ·Mail of Making Enquiries | 第72-75页 |
| ·Course Books vs. Real Practice | 第75-78页 |
| Chapter 6 Linguistic Realizations of Requests in ITE | 第78-90页 |
| ·"Nature of Requests in Pragmatic Theory | 第78-79页 |
| ·Power and Distance | 第79-82页 |
| ·Power in Context of International Business Transactions | 第79-81页 |
| ·Distance in Organizational Contexts | 第81-82页 |
| ·Requests in ITE Communication | 第82-83页 |
| ·Findings | 第83-88页 |
| ·Linguistic Realizations of Requests | 第83-86页 |
| ·Power | 第86-87页 |
| ·Distance | 第87-88页 |
| ·Summary | 第88-90页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusions | 第90-94页 |
| ·Summary of the Major Findings | 第90-91页 |
| ·Pedagogical and Research Implications | 第91-92页 |
| ·Areas for Further Study | 第92-94页 |
| References | 第94-97页 |
