| 中文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-8页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·Research background | 第9页 |
| ·Objectives | 第9-10页 |
| ·Significance | 第10-11页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Bases and Literature Review | 第13-32页 |
| ·Theoretical bases | 第13-25页 |
| ·Genre | 第13-16页 |
| ·Genre analysis | 第16-18页 |
| ·Three approaches to genre analysis | 第18-21页 |
| ·Linguistic features of abstracts | 第21-23页 |
| ·Genre analysis of academic paper abstracts | 第23-25页 |
| ·Review of related studies | 第25-30页 |
| ·Studies on the generic structure of academic paper abstracts | 第26-27页 |
| ·Studies on the linguistic features of academic paper abstracts | 第27-28页 |
| ·Studies on the contrastive analysis of academic paper abstracts | 第28-30页 |
| ·Research gap | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology | 第32-37页 |
| ·Research questions | 第32页 |
| ·Corpus | 第32-33页 |
| ·Data analysis framework and procedures | 第33-37页 |
| ·Analyzing the macro- and micro-structures of thesis abstracts | 第33-36页 |
| ·Analyzing the linguistic features of thesis abstracts | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Discussion | 第37-67页 |
| ·Genre studies on the structure of thesis abstracts in CNS and CXP | 第37-58页 |
| ·The macro-structure of thesis abstracts in CNS and CXP | 第37-42页 |
| ·The micro-structure of thesis abstracts in CNS and CXP | 第42-56页 |
| ·A pattern for generic structure of English M.A. thesis abstracts in linguistics | 第56-58页 |
| ·Genre studies on the linguistic features of thesis abstracts | 第58-64页 |
| ·Tenses | 第58-60页 |
| ·Voices | 第60-62页 |
| ·First person pronouns | 第62-63页 |
| ·Summary of the results | 第63-64页 |
| ·Possible reasons | 第64-67页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第67-73页 |
| ·Major findings | 第67-70页 |
| ·Implications | 第70-71页 |
| ·Limitations of the study and suggestions for future research | 第71-73页 |
| Appendix | 第73-81页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第73-79页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第79-81页 |
| References | 第81-85页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第85页 |
