| Abstract | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-23页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第23-40页 |
| ·Background to the study | 第23-30页 |
| ·The research objectives and significance | 第30-33页 |
| ·Methodology and data collection | 第33-36页 |
| ·Organizations of this dissertation | 第36-40页 |
| Chapter 2 The previous studies of reporting | 第40-79页 |
| ·Introduction | 第40页 |
| ·Defining reporting | 第40-42页 |
| ·Approaches to reporting | 第42-69页 |
| ·The philosophical approach | 第42-45页 |
| ·The stylistic approach | 第45-50页 |
| ·The general linguistic approach | 第50-59页 |
| ·The lexical approach | 第51-53页 |
| ·The syntactic and semantic approach | 第53-59页 |
| ·The pragmatic approach | 第59-62页 |
| ·The systemic-functional approach | 第62-68页 |
| ·Other researches concerning reporting | 第68-69页 |
| ·Advantages and drawbacks of the previous studies on reporting | 第69-72页 |
| ·The interrelation between reporting and perspective | 第72-78页 |
| ·Studies in perspective | 第73-75页 |
| ·Aspects of natural joint | 第75-78页 |
| ·Summary | 第78-79页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical considerations | 第79-114页 |
| ·Introduction | 第79-80页 |
| ·Systemic-functional grammar | 第80-91页 |
| ·Three metafunctions | 第80-85页 |
| ·Clause complex | 第85-87页 |
| ·Realization | 第87-89页 |
| ·Genre | 第89-91页 |
| ·Cognitive grammar | 第91-97页 |
| ·Perspective | 第91-93页 |
| ·Attention, vantage point, empathy, starting point and point of view | 第93-95页 |
| ·Brief comments on these notions | 第95-97页 |
| ·Motivations for the study of LRs in English dissertations | 第97-99页 |
| ·Language levels to be analyzed | 第99-112页 |
| ·Reporting verbs | 第100-104页 |
| ·Metadiscourse | 第104-105页 |
| ·Tense | 第105-108页 |
| ·Voice | 第108-109页 |
| ·That-clause and It-clause | 第109-112页 |
| ·Summary | 第112-114页 |
| Chapter 4 Generic structure potential of Literature Reviews | 第114-148页 |
| ·Introduction | 第114页 |
| ·Purposes and significance of LRs | 第114-121页 |
| ·Titles | 第115-117页 |
| ·Focuses and goals | 第117-121页 |
| ·Generic structure of LRs | 第121-125页 |
| ·Elements of LRs and relations between elements and perspectives | 第125-146页 |
| ·Element analysis | 第126-132页 |
| ·Citation: an important feature in Elements 2 and 3 | 第132-138页 |
| ·Relations between elements and perspectives | 第138-146页 |
| ·Summary | 第146-148页 |
| Chapter 5 Reporting verbs in Literature Reviews | 第148-214页 |
| ·Introduction | 第148页 |
| ·Pervasiveness of reporting verbs in LRs | 第148-154页 |
| ·Categories of reporting verbs | 第154-160页 |
| ·Functional analysis of reporting verbs in LRs | 第160-173页 |
| ·Functions of Research verbs in reporting | 第161-167页 |
| ·Functions of Cognition verbs in reporting | 第167-168页 |
| ·Functions of Discourse verbs in reporting | 第168-173页 |
| ·Disciplinary variations in reporting verbs | 第173-182页 |
| ·Disciplinary preferences for perspective portraying | 第173-179页 |
| ·A case study: report and find | 第179-182页 |
| ·Tense of reporting verbs in LRs | 第182-193页 |
| ·Distributions of tenses of reporting verbs in the 100 LRs | 第183-188页 |
| ·Tense realizations in LRs | 第188-193页 |
| ·Voice of reporting verbs in LRs | 第193-212页 |
| ·Functions of the passives in LRs | 第195-200页 |
| ·Disciplinary variation of passives | 第200-208页 |
| ·A case study: the verb say | 第208-212页 |
| ·Summary | 第212-214页 |
| Chapter 6 Perspectival that-clause and metadiscourse in Literature Reviews | 第214-280页 |
| ·Introduction | 第214-215页 |
| ·Classification and significance of perspectival that-clause | 第215-230页 |
| ·Experiential function | 第218-221页 |
| ·Interpersonal function | 第221-227页 |
| ·Textual function | 第227-230页 |
| ·Distributions of perspectival that-clauses | 第230-234页 |
| ·Perspectival that-clauses in LRs | 第234-244页 |
| ·The entity commented on | 第235-238页 |
| ·Stance of the writer towards the entity commented on | 第238-240页 |
| ·Source of the comments | 第240-242页 |
| ·The perspectival expression | 第242-244页 |
| ·Perspectival metadiscourse in LRs | 第244-247页 |
| ·Functional analysis of person markers I and we | 第247-264页 |
| ·Person markers as a rhetorical means | 第247-252页 |
| ·Functional realizations of person markers I and we | 第252-261页 |
| ·A case study: the use of argue | 第261-264页 |
| ·Functional analysis of attitude markers I find, I believe, I think and I know | 第264-274页 |
| ·A way of foregrounding | 第264-265页 |
| ·A politeness interpretation | 第265-267页 |
| ·A discourse strategy | 第267-269页 |
| ·A way of projection and modality | 第269-273页 |
| ·A device of evaluation | 第273-274页 |
| ·About ‘as...' | 第274-278页 |
| ·Summary | 第278-280页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第280-290页 |
| ·Introduction | 第280页 |
| ·Findings of the current study | 第280-287页 |
| ·Significance of the current study | 第287-289页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further research | 第289-290页 |
| Appendix 1 Data sources | 第290-292页 |
| Appendix 2 Data Samples | 第292-296页 |
| Bibliography | 第296-319页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第319页 |
