| Abstract | 第4页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| Abbreviations | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第12-24页 |
| 2.1 Theoretical Assumptions on Nominalization in Systemic Functional Linguistics | 第12-14页 |
| 2.2 Empirical Studies on the Application of Nominalization | 第14-18页 |
| 2.3 Previous Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Abstract | 第18-22页 |
| 2.3.1 The Characteristics of Abstracts | 第18-19页 |
| 2.3.2 Foreign and Domestic Studies on Abstract | 第19-22页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第24-34页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第24页 |
| 3.2 Corpora Establishment | 第24-27页 |
| 3.3 Measurement of Nominalizations | 第27-32页 |
| 3.3.1 Quality Nominalization | 第29-30页 |
| 3.3.2 Process Nominalization | 第30页 |
| 3.3.3 Circumstance Nominalization | 第30-31页 |
| 3.3.4 Relator Nominalization | 第31页 |
| 3.3.5 Zero Nominalization | 第31-32页 |
| 3.4 Instruments | 第32页 |
| 3.5 Procedures of Data Identification and Analysis | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第34-50页 |
| 4.1 Interlingual and Inter-disciplinary Comparison of Nominalization Uses between theEnglish Abstracts of Research Articles for Social Sciences | 第34-43页 |
| 4.1.1 Interlingual Comparison of the Five Types of Nominalization between CSCand NSC | 第35-37页 |
| 4.1.2 Interdisciplinary Comparison of the Five Types of Nominalization in CSC andNSC | 第37-43页 |
| 4.2 Interlingual and interdisciplinary Comparison of the Nominalization Patterning in the English Abstracts of Research Articles for Social Sciences | 第43-48页 |
| 4.2.1 Interlingual Comparison of the Nominalization Patterning in the EnglishAbstracts of Research Articles for Social Sciences | 第43-46页 |
| 4.2.2 Interdisciplinary Comparison of the Nominalization Patterning in the EnglishAbstracts of Research Articles for Social Sciences | 第46-48页 |
| 4.3 Summary of the Results | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第50-53页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第50-51页 |
| 5.2 Implications of the Study | 第51-52页 |
| 5.3 Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Further Study | 第52-53页 |
| References | 第53-58页 |
| 攻读学位期间取得的研究成果 | 第58-59页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第59-60页 |
| Appendix I | 第60-61页 |
| Appendix II | 第61页 |
