| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| List of Tables | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第11-12页 |
| 1.2 the Purpose and the Significance of the Thesis | 第12页 |
| 1.3 The Overall Structure of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-25页 |
| 2.1 Theoretical Foundations | 第14-16页 |
| 2.1.1 The Ideational Metafunction of Language | 第14页 |
| 2.1.2 Halliday’s Transitivity System | 第14-15页 |
| 2.1.3 Summary of Transitivity | 第15-16页 |
| 2.2 English Abstracts of Academic Papers | 第16-18页 |
| 2.2.1 Introduction of English Abstracts | 第16-17页 |
| 2.2.2 Structure of an English Abstract | 第17-18页 |
| 2.3 Empirical Studies on the Application of Transitivity | 第18-20页 |
| 2.4 Empirical Studies on English Abstracts | 第20-23页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第25-35页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第25-26页 |
| 3.2 Data Collection | 第26-27页 |
| 3.3 Measurement of Process Types | 第27-32页 |
| 3.3.1 Material Processes | 第27-28页 |
| 3.3.2 Mental Processes | 第28-29页 |
| 3.3.3 Relational Processes | 第29-30页 |
| 3.3.4 Behavioral Processes | 第30-31页 |
| 3.3.5 Verbal Processes | 第31-32页 |
| 3.3.6 Existential Processes | 第32页 |
| 3.4 Measurement of Move in English abstracts | 第32-34页 |
| 3.5 Data Analysis | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第35-53页 |
| 4.1 General Tendency in Kinds of Process Type Between Chinese and Western Writers | 第35-37页 |
| 4.2 Distribution of Process Types in English abstracts of Academic Papers | 第37-43页 |
| 4.2.1 Distributional Differences in Process Types Between Chinese and Western Writers | 第37-38页 |
| 4.2.2 The Preferred Types of Process Between Chinese and Western Writers | 第38-39页 |
| 4.2.3 Discussion of the Results | 第39-43页 |
| 4.3 Distributional Differences and Dominant Process Types of Transitivity in the Four Moves of English Abstracts | 第43-50页 |
| 4.3.1 Distributional Differences and Dominant Process Types in Introduction Move of English abstracts | 第43-45页 |
| 4.3.2 Distributional Differences and Dominant Process Types in Method Move of English abstracts | 第45-47页 |
| 4.3.3 Distributional Differences and Dominant Process Types in Result Move of English abstracts | 第47-49页 |
| 4.3.4 Distributional Differences and Dominant Process Types in Conclusion Move of English abstracts | 第49-50页 |
| 4.4 Summary of Results | 第50-53页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第53-56页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第53-54页 |
| 5.2 Implications | 第54-55页 |
| 5.3 Limitations | 第55-56页 |
| References | 第56-60页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第60-63页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第63-65页 |
