| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-11页 |
| 1.Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Research background | 第11-13页 |
| ·Methodology and data collection | 第13-14页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第14-15页 |
| 2.Literature Review | 第15-32页 |
| ·A survey of job advertisements | 第15-21页 |
| ·A brief introduction to advertisements | 第15-17页 |
| ·Previous studies on job advertisements | 第17-21页 |
| ·A survey of interpersonal meaning | 第21-32页 |
| ·An introduction to interpersonal meaning | 第21-24页 |
| ·Realization of interpersonal meaning | 第24-32页 |
| 3.A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Job Advertisements | 第32-61页 |
| ·Mood in job advertising discourses | 第32-45页 |
| ·Speech roles and mood structures | 第32-35页 |
| ·Information-giving | 第35-39页 |
| ·Action-demanding | 第39-42页 |
| ·"dialogue" | 第42-45页 |
| ·Modality in job advertising discourses | 第45-52页 |
| ·Modalization | 第46-49页 |
| ·Modulation | 第49-52页 |
| ·The person system in job advertising discourses | 第52-61页 |
| ·Distribution and frequency of person pronouns | 第53-56页 |
| ·The first person pronouns | 第56-57页 |
| ·The second person pronouns | 第57-58页 |
| ·The third person pronouns | 第58-59页 |
| ·The combination of the first person and the second person pronouns | 第59-61页 |
| 4.Findings and Discussions | 第61-64页 |
| ·Similarities | 第61-62页 |
| ·Differences and reasons | 第62-64页 |
| 5.Conclusion | 第64-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-67页 |
| Appendix 1 Sources of Corpus | 第67-71页 |
| Appendix 2 Typical Sample Texts | 第71-80页 |
