| Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| ·Research Significance | 第8-9页 |
| ·Research Objectives | 第9页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第9-12页 |
| 2 Literature Review | 第12-18页 |
| ·Defining Reporting and Reporting Verbs | 第12-14页 |
| ·Previous Works on Reporting and Reporting Verbs | 第14-18页 |
| ·On Reporting | 第14-16页 |
| ·On Reporting Verbs | 第16-18页 |
| 3 Research Design | 第18-22页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第18页 |
| ·Research Procedure | 第18-19页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第18-19页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第19页 |
| ·Discussion | 第19页 |
| ·Research Method | 第19-22页 |
| ·Review on Corpus-based Linguistics | 第19-20页 |
| ·Software Tools Used in This Research | 第20-22页 |
| 4 Data Analysis and Discussion | 第22-54页 |
| ·Reporting Structures | 第23-25页 |
| ·Reporting Forms | 第25-26页 |
| ·Semantic Categories of Reporting Verbs | 第26-40页 |
| ·Research Acts | 第35-36页 |
| ·Cognition Acts | 第36-38页 |
| ·Discourse Acts | 第38-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39-40页 |
| ·Frequency of Reporting Verbs | 第40-45页 |
| ·Tense of Reporting Verbs | 第45-51页 |
| ·Distribution of the Tense of Reporting Verbs | 第45-48页 |
| ·Distribution of Tense of Reporting Verbs in Terms of Integral Author or Non-integral Author | 第48-51页 |
| ·Voice of Reporting Verbs | 第51-54页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第54-59页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第54-55页 |
| ·Implications | 第55-56页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for the Future Research | 第56-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-63页 |
| Publications | 第63-64页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第64页 |
