| Contents | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| List of Figures and Tables | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter one Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·The Research Background | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Aims and Significance of the Research | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Research Questions | 第13页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter two Literature Review | 第14-25页 |
| ·The Definitions of Pragmatic Markers and Commentary Pragmatic Markers | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Definitions of Pragmatic Markers | 第14页 |
| ·The Definitions of Commentary Pragmatic Markers | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Types of Pragmatic Markers and Commentary Pragmatic Markers | 第15-17页 |
| ·The Types of Pragmatic Markers | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Types of Commentary Pragmatic Markers | 第16-17页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Pragmatic Markers | 第17-21页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Pragmatic Markers Abroad | 第17-19页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Pragmatic Markers at Home | 第19-21页 |
| ·An Overview of News Discourse | 第21-24页 |
| ·Previous Studies on News Discourse Abroad | 第21-22页 |
| ·Previous Studies of News Discourse at Home | 第22-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter three Theoretical Frameworks | 第25-30页 |
| ·An Overview of Appraisal Theory | 第25-26页 |
| ·A More Detailed Description of Attitude | 第26-29页 |
| ·Affect | 第26-27页 |
| ·Judgment | 第27-28页 |
| ·Appreciation | 第28-29页 |
| ·Summary | 第29-30页 |
| Chapter Four Research Design | 第30-35页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第30页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第30-31页 |
| ·Research Instrument | 第31-32页 |
| ·Research Procedures | 第32-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Discussion | 第35-60页 |
| ·General Results | 第35-42页 |
| ·General Distribution of Commentary Pragmatic Markers in News Discourse | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Syntactic Patterns of Commentary Markers in News Discourse | 第36-40页 |
| ·The Contributions of Commentary Pragmatic Markers to the Meaning Expressions of News Discourse | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Commentary Pragmatic Markers as Attitudinal Resources | 第42-53页 |
| ·The Commentary Pragmatic Markers as Affect Resources | 第44-47页 |
| ·The Commentary Pragmatic Markers as Judgment Resources | 第47-51页 |
| ·The Commentary Pragmatic Markers as Appreciation Resources | 第51-53页 |
| ·Comparative Analyses of Attitudinal Resources in the News Reports | 第53-60页 |
| ·Similarities and Discussion | 第54-55页 |
| ·Differences and Discussion | 第55-60页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusions | 第60-63页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第60-61页 |
| ·Implications | 第61页 |
| ·Limitations | 第61-63页 |
| References | 第63-66页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Model Sample Selected from Chinese Dataset | 第66-68页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Model Sample Selected from American Dataset | 第68-71页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ The Lexical Items of Attitudinal Resources in Datasets | 第71-72页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ The Operating Steps of UAM Corpus Tool | 第72-73页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第73页 |
