| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Academic Achievements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| Table of Contents | 第10-12页 |
| List of Tables | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-20页 |
| ·Aims and Significances of the Study | 第14-16页 |
| ·Research Methods and Data Collection | 第16-18页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two Overview of International Business Correspondences | 第20-26页 |
| ·Overview of the Studies on International Business Correspondences | 第20-21页 |
| ·Genre Approach to the Current Study on International Business Correspondences | 第21-23页 |
| ·Current Studies on International Business Emails | 第23-26页 |
| Chapter Three Framework of Genre-based Comparison | 第26-35页 |
| ·Review of Genre Theory | 第26-29页 |
| ·Definitions of Genre | 第26-27页 |
| ·Genre Theory and Move-step Structure | 第27-28页 |
| ·Genre Analysis | 第28-29页 |
| ·Relevant Key Concepts | 第29-31页 |
| ·Discourse Community | 第29-30页 |
| ·Politeness Strategies | 第30-31页 |
| ·Ethnography | 第31页 |
| ·A Framework for Comparative Genre-based Study on International Business Emails | 第31-35页 |
| Chapter Four The Contents and Features of International Business Emails | 第35-54页 |
| ·The Contents of International Business Emails | 第35-39页 |
| ·The Formats of International Business Emails | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Components of International Business Emails | 第36-39页 |
| ·The Features of International Business Emails | 第39-51页 |
| ·Lexical Features | 第39-46页 |
| ·Terminology | 第39-40页 |
| ·Usage of Abbreviation | 第40-41页 |
| ·Wordlist of International Business Email Corpus | 第41-46页 |
| ·Syntactic Features | 第46-49页 |
| ·Textual Features | 第49-51页 |
| ·International Business Emails as a Macro-genre | 第51-54页 |
| Chapter Five Comparative Genre Analysis of International Business Emails from Chinese and Native English Speakers | 第54-67页 |
| ·Similarities of the International Business Emails Written by Chinese and Native English Speakers | 第54-60页 |
| ·Macro-representation Structure | 第54-56页 |
| ·Macro-interaction Structure | 第56-59页 |
| ·The politeness strategies for International Business Emails | 第59-60页 |
| ·Differences Between the International Business Emails Written by Chinese and Native English Speakers | 第60-65页 |
| ·Differences at the Move AD | 第61-62页 |
| ·Differences at the Politeness Strategies | 第62-63页 |
| ·The Analysis of Motivation | 第63-65页 |
| ·Summary of the Comparative Analysis | 第65-67页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第67-69页 |
| References | 第69-73页 |
| Appendix | 第73-76页 |
