| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第6-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-15页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第18-22页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第18-19页 |
| 1.2 Significance of the Research | 第19-20页 |
| 1.3 Purpose of the Research | 第20页 |
| 1.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW AND PROPOSED FRAMEWORK | 第22-36页 |
| 2.1 Definitions of Key Terms | 第22-24页 |
| 2.1.1 Definition of reporting verbs | 第22-23页 |
| 2.1.2 Definition of stance | 第23-24页 |
| 2.2 Studies on Reporting Verbs in Academic Discourses | 第24-28页 |
| 2.2.1 Studies on categorization of reporting verbs | 第24-26页 |
| 2.2.2 Contrastive studies on reporting verbs | 第26-28页 |
| 2.3 Studies on Reporting Verbs in Sections of Academic Papers | 第28-31页 |
| 2.4 Proposed Framework | 第31-36页 |
| 2.4.1 Thompson & Ye’s Framework | 第31-33页 |
| 2.4.2 Theoretical framework proposed for the research | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter Three METHODOLOGY | 第36-39页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第36页 |
| 3.2 Corpus Description | 第36-37页 |
| 3.3 Data Tagging, Collection and Processing | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Four RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第39-59页 |
| 4.1 Contrasting General Frequencies of Reporting Verbs | 第39-46页 |
| 4.1.1 Reporting verbs with denotative meaning | 第39-43页 |
| 4.1.2 Reporting verbs with evaluative potential | 第43-46页 |
| 4.2 Reporting Verbs in Four Sections | 第46-59页 |
| 4.2.1 Reporting verbs used in introduction section | 第47-50页 |
| 4.2.2 Reporting verbs used in literature review section | 第50-54页 |
| 4.2.3 Reporting verbs used in methodology section | 第54-56页 |
| 4.2.4 Reporting verbs used in results and discussion section | 第56-59页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第59-65页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第59-62页 |
| 5.1.1 General frequencies of reporting verbs | 第59-61页 |
| 5.1.2 Reporting verbs in four sections | 第61-62页 |
| 5.2 Implications for the Research | 第62-64页 |
| 5.3 Limitations for the Research | 第64-65页 |
| REFERENCES | 第65-69页 |
| APPENDICES | 第69-73页 |
| APPENIX 1 Published journal papers | 第69-70页 |
| APPENIX 2 Master theses by English Majors | 第70-72页 |
| APPENDIX 3 Typical Examples of Reporting Verbs in Journal Papers | 第72-73页 |
| APPENDIX 4 作者在攻读硕士学位期间发表论文的目录 | 第73页 |
