| Abstract | 第3-4页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-10页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第10-11页 |
| 1.2 Significance of the Research | 第11-12页 |
| 1.3 Organization of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| 2. Literature Review and Theoretical Basis | 第14-24页 |
| 2.1 Previous Researches about Evidentiality at Home and Abroad | 第14-17页 |
| 2.2 Theoretical Basis | 第17-24页 |
| 2.2.1 Views on Evidentiality | 第17-21页 |
| 2.2.2 Genre Analysis | 第21-24页 |
| 3. Research Design | 第24-28页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第24页 |
| 3.2 Data Collection | 第24-25页 |
| 3.3 Research Method | 第25-28页 |
| 4. Contrastive Analysis of Evidentials in Chinese and English MADissertations | 第28-52页 |
| 4.1 Evidentials and Lexical realizations in Master Dissertations in Both Corpora | 第28-34页 |
| 4.1.1 Sensory Evidential | 第28-29页 |
| 4.1.2 Reporting Evidential | 第29-31页 |
| 4.1.3 Inferring Evidential | 第31-33页 |
| 4.1.4 Belief Evidential | 第33-34页 |
| 4.2 Contrastive Analysis of Lexical Realizations of Evidentials in the Two Corpora | 第34-48页 |
| 4.2.1 Differences in Overall Distributions of Four Types of Evidentials | 第34-35页 |
| 4.2.2 Differences in Distributions of Sensory Evidentials in MA dissertations | 第35-37页 |
| 4.2.3 Differences in Distributions of Reporting Evidential in MA dissertations | 第37-41页 |
| 4.2.4 Differences in Distributions of Inferring Evidential in MA dissertations | 第41-47页 |
| 4.2.5 Differences in Distributions of Belief Evidential in MA dissertations | 第47-48页 |
| 4.3 Possible Reasons for the Differences | 第48-52页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第52-56页 |
| 5.1 Findings of the Study | 第52-54页 |
| 5.2 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study | 第54-56页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第56-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-62页 |
| Appendix | 第62-66页 |
| Publications | 第66页 |
