| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| 1 Literature Review | 第15-32页 |
| ·Defining reporting and reporting verbs | 第15-19页 |
| ·Theoretical framework | 第19-26页 |
| ·Empirical studies on reporting and reporting verbs | 第26-30页 |
| ·Summary of the previous works | 第30-32页 |
| 2 Methodology | 第32-40页 |
| ·Research questions | 第32-33页 |
| ·Research method | 第33-34页 |
| ·Instruments | 第34-36页 |
| ·Research procedures | 第36-40页 |
| 3 Results and Discussion | 第40-69页 |
| ·Reporting forms and reporting structures in the two corpora | 第41-46页 |
| ·Overall frequencies of reporting verbs in the two corpora | 第46-48页 |
| ·Distribution and characteristics of reporting verbs in terms of the semantic categories | 第48-62页 |
| ·The phraseological features of reporting verbs | 第62-67页 |
| ·Summary | 第67-69页 |
| Conclusion | 第69-74页 |
| References | 第74-80页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第80-81页 |
| Appendix | 第81页 |
