| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| CONTENTS | 第10-12页 |
| LISTS OF TABLES | 第12-13页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第13-14页 |
| CHAPTER ONE Introduction | 第14-22页 |
| ·First Person Pronouns | 第14-15页 |
| ·Research on the Use of First Person Pronouns in Academic Writing abroad | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research on the Use of First Person Pronouns in Academic Writing in China | 第16-17页 |
| ·Problems Existing on the Use of First Person Pronouns in Academic Writing | 第17-19页 |
| ·Motivation and Significance of the Present Paper | 第19-20页 |
| ·Research Questions of the Present Paper | 第20-21页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第21-22页 |
| CHAPTER TWO Literature Review | 第22-39页 |
| ·An Introduction to the Historical Development of Research Articles | 第22-24页 |
| ·An Overview of the Previous Research on the Notion of Writer Identity in Research Articles | 第24-26页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction of the Previous Research on the Use of First Person Pronouns in Research Articles | 第26-39页 |
| ·Semantic References of First Person Pronouns | 第27-29页 |
| ·Discoursal Functions of First Person Pronouns | 第29-34页 |
| ·First Person Pronouns as Features of Interactional Metadiscourse | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Use of First Person Pronoun across Disciplines | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Use of First Person Pronoun across Cultures | 第36-39页 |
| CHAPTER THREE CORPUS AND METHODOLOGY | 第39-44页 |
| ·Corpus | 第39-42页 |
| ·Discipline Selection | 第39-40页 |
| ·Research Articles Selection | 第40-41页 |
| ·Corpus Building | 第41-42页 |
| ·Methodology | 第42-44页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR THE USE OF FIRST PERSON PRONOUNS IN ACADEMIC WRITING | 第44-67页 |
| ·The Use of First Person Pronouns by International Linguistic Expert Writers | 第44-50页 |
| ·The Use of First Person Pronouns by Chinese Linguistic Postgraduates | 第50-67页 |
| ·Overall Frequency of the Use of First Person Pronouns | 第50-52页 |
| ·Semantic References of First Person Pronouns | 第52-56页 |
| ·Discoursal Functions of First Person Pronouns | 第56-67页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第67-73页 |
| ·Findings | 第67-69页 |
| ·Possible Explanations | 第69-70页 |
| ·Implications | 第70-71页 |
| ·Limitations | 第71页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第71-73页 |
| REFERENCES | 第73-79页 |
| DICTIONARIES CITED: | 第78-79页 |
