| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 内容提要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| Chapter Two Previous Work on Metadiscourse and Its Taxonomy | 第16-23页 |
| ·Halliday’s framework of metafunctions of language | 第16-17页 |
| ·Taxonomies of metadiscourse items | 第17-19页 |
| ·Recent studies on metadiscourse outside China | 第19-21页 |
| ·Studies on metadiscourse in China | 第21-22页 |
| ·A brief account of our contrastive study | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter Three Characteristics of Pharmaceutical Packaging Inserts | 第23-26页 |
| ·Generic framework | 第23-24页 |
| ·Generic characteristic of pharmaceutical packaging inserts | 第24-25页 |
| ·Pragmatic characteristic of pharmaceutical inserts | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter Four Metadiscourse Studies on Pharmaceutical Packaging Inserts | 第26-41页 |
| ·Theoretical framework for the analysis | 第26-30页 |
| 4. 1. 1 Halliday’s framework | 第26页 |
| ·Relevant pragmatic theories | 第26-28页 |
| ·Some linguistic differences inherent in English and Chinese | 第28-29页 |
| ·Social and cultural differences: a framework | 第29-30页 |
| ·The taxonomy of metadiscourse devices for English and Chinese pharmaceutical packaging inserts | 第30-38页 |
| ·A metadiscourse schema for English | 第30-31页 |
| ·Textual metadiscourse and its subcategories | 第31-34页 |
| ·Interpersonal metadiscourse and its subcategories | 第34-37页 |
| ·A working metadiscourse schema for Chinese | 第37-38页 |
| ·Data and methodology | 第38-39页 |
| ·Data sources and data collection | 第38页 |
| ·Analysis methods | 第38-39页 |
| ·Statistical presentations | 第39-41页 |
| ·Statistical findings of metadiscource devices in English pharmaceutical packaging inserts | 第39-40页 |
| ·Statistical findings of metadiscource devices in Chinese pharmaceutical packaging inserts | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Five Contrastive analysis and Discussion | 第41-59页 |
| ·Similarities in the employment of metadiscourse devices in English and Chinese pharmaceutical packaging inserts | 第41-49页 |
| ·Some possible explanations | 第41-49页 |
| ·Differences in the employment of metadiscourse devices in English and Chinese pharmaceutical packaging inserts | 第49-59页 |
| ·Some possible explanations | 第51-59页 |
| Chapter six Conclusion | 第59-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-67页 |
| Appendix | 第67-69页 |
