| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第12-15页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第15-19页 |
| 1.1 Research orientation | 第15页 |
| 1.2 Rationale | 第15-18页 |
| 1.3 Organization of the thesis | 第18-19页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第19-26页 |
| 2.1 Previous studies on Multi-Dimensional Analysis | 第19-21页 |
| 2.2 Previous studies on letters to shareholders | 第21-24页 |
| 2.3 Limitations of previous studies | 第24-26页 |
| CHAPTER THREE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK | 第26-34页 |
| 3.1 Surface-level linguistic description: register analysis through MDA | 第26-30页 |
| 3.1.1 Register analysis in general | 第26-29页 |
| 3.1.2 Register analysis through MDA | 第29-30页 |
| 3.2 Deep-level explanation: analysis of situational and cultural context | 第30-32页 |
| 3.3 A proposed analytical framework | 第32-34页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR METHOD | 第34-40页 |
| 4.1 Research questions | 第34页 |
| 4.2 Corpus data | 第34-36页 |
| 4.3 Corpus tool | 第36-38页 |
| 4.4 Analytical procedures | 第38-40页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE RESULTS AND ANALYSIS | 第40-52页 |
| 5.1 Similarities and differences on register dimensions between CCLS and CALS | 第40-42页 |
| 5.1.1 Similarities on register dimensions between CCLS and CALS | 第40-41页 |
| 5.1.2 Differences on register dimensions between CCLS and CALS | 第41-42页 |
| 5.2 Linguistic features contributing to the dimensional similarities of CCLS and CALS | 第42-43页 |
| 5.3 Linguistic features underlying the dimensional differences of CCLS and CALS | 第43-51页 |
| 5.3.1 Linguistic features underlying differences on dimension 1 and 4 | 第44-47页 |
| 5.3.2 Linguistic features underlying differences on dimension 2, 3 and 6 | 第47-51页 |
| 5.4 Summary | 第51-52页 |
| CHAPTER SIX DISCUSSION | 第52-63页 |
| 6.1 Accounts for the similarities between CCLS and CALS | 第52-55页 |
| 6.2 Accounts for the differences between CCLS and CALS | 第55-63页 |
| 6.2.1 National cultures | 第55-58页 |
| 6.2.2 Business cultures | 第58页 |
| 6.2.3 The writers/ translators’ influence | 第58-63页 |
| CHAPTER Seven CONCLUSION | 第63-69页 |
| 7.1 Summary of major findings | 第63-66页 |
| 7.2 Implications of this study | 第66-67页 |
| 7.3 Limitations and suggestions | 第67-69页 |
| REFERENCES | 第69-75页 |
| APPENDICES | 第75-78页 |
| Appendix A | 第75-77页 |
| Appendix B | 第77-78页 |
| 在校期间发表论文清单 | 第78页 |
