| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第9-10页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第10页 |
| 摘要 | 第11-16页 |
| CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION | 第16-22页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第16-17页 |
| 1.2 Research Significance | 第17-19页 |
| 1.3 Research Purpose | 第19-20页 |
| 1.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第20-22页 |
| CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW | 第22-39页 |
| 2.1 Definition of Reporting Verbs | 第22-26页 |
| 2.1.1 Definition of Reporting | 第22-25页 |
| 2.1.2 Definition of Reporting Verbs | 第25-26页 |
| 2.2 Classification of Reporting Verbs | 第26-33页 |
| 2.2.1 Thompson & Ye’s (1991) Classification of Reporting Verbs | 第26-29页 |
| 2.2.2 Thomas & Hawes’ (1994) Classification of Reporting Verbs | 第29-31页 |
| 2.2.3 Hyland’s (1999) Classification of Reporting Verbs | 第31-33页 |
| 2.3 Tense Choices of Reporting Verbs | 第33-34页 |
| 2.4 Previous Empirical Studies on Reporting Verbs | 第34-39页 |
| 2.4.1 Previous Empirical Studies on Reporting Verbs | 第34-37页 |
| 2.4.2 Research Gaps | 第37-39页 |
| CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY | 第39-51页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第39-40页 |
| 3.2 Research Design | 第40页 |
| 3.3 Corpora | 第40-42页 |
| 3.4 Data Collection | 第42-47页 |
| 3.4.1 Identification of Reporting Verbs | 第42-43页 |
| 3.4.2 Retrieval of Reporting Verbs | 第43-47页 |
| 3.5 Data Processing | 第47-51页 |
| 3.5.1 Classification Framework of Reporting Verbs | 第47-49页 |
| 3.5.2 Statistical Analysis of the Data | 第49-51页 |
| CHAPTER IV RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第51-69页 |
| 4.1 General Distribution of Reporting Verbs in ISC and CSC | 第51-54页 |
| 4.2 Distribution of Reporting Verbs in Terms of Denotation | 第54-60页 |
| 4.2.1 General Distribution of Reporting Verbs in terms of Denotation | 第54-59页 |
| 4.2.2 Distribution of Research Verbs in CSC and ISC | 第59-60页 |
| 4.3 Distribution of Reporting Verbs in Terms of Evaluation | 第60-69页 |
| 4.3.1 Distribution of Reporting Verbs in Terms of Evaluation From the Semantic Perspective | 第60-64页 |
| 4.3.2 Distribution of Tense Choices of Reporting Verbs | 第64-69页 |
| CHAPTER V CONCLUSION | 第69-73页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第69-70页 |
| 5.2 Pedagogical Implications on Academic Writing | 第70-71页 |
| 5.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Studies | 第71-73页 |
| REFERENCES | 第73-78页 |
| APPENDICES | 第78-80页 |
