| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-14页 |
| Chapter1 Introduction | 第14-19页 |
| ·Background Information | 第14-15页 |
| ·Purposes and Questions of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Methodology and Data to Be Collected | 第17页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter2 Literature Review | 第19-41页 |
| ·Historical Reviews | 第19-23页 |
| ·Origins and Notes of Earlier Study on Hedges | 第19-21页 |
| ·Empirical Studies of Hedges | 第21-23页 |
| ·Study of Hedges in China | 第23-25页 |
| ·Classification of Hedges | 第25-34页 |
| ·Zadeh‘s classification as starting point | 第25-26页 |
| ·Prince, Frader and Bosk‘s Taxonomy | 第26-29页 |
| ·Salager-Meyer‘s classification on hedges | 第29-30页 |
| ·Varttala‘s classification on hedges | 第30-33页 |
| ·Caffi‘s classification | 第33-34页 |
| ·Theoretical Framework of the Research | 第34-36页 |
| ·Why Use the Systemic—Functional Grammar | 第34-35页 |
| ·Interpersonal Function | 第35-36页 |
| ·Modality under Systemic Functional Grammar | 第36-41页 |
| ·General Definitions of modality | 第36-37页 |
| ·Modalization | 第37-38页 |
| ·Realizations of Modality | 第38-41页 |
| Chapter3 Relationship between Hedges and Modality | 第41-46页 |
| ·Overlap of Hedges and Modality in Definition | 第41-42页 |
| ·Intersection in Words That Express Hedges and Modality | 第42-43页 |
| ·Interface of Hedges and Modality | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter4 Interpersonal Functional Analysis of Hedges in English News Commentary | 第46-69页 |
| ·General Features of News Commentary | 第46-50页 |
| ·Genre Analysis of News Commentary | 第46-48页 |
| ·Communicative Purposes of News Commentary | 第48-49页 |
| ·Move Structure and General Organization of News Commentary | 第49-50页 |
| ·The Corpus and Method for Analysis of Hedges in News Commentary | 第50-52页 |
| ·The Corpus | 第51页 |
| ·Methodology | 第51-52页 |
| ·Overall Distribution of Hedges in News Commentary | 第52-65页 |
| ·Overall Distribution of Hedges in news commentary according to move structure | 第53-56页 |
| ·Overall Distribution of Hedges in Two Corpora | 第56-65页 |
| ·Reasons for Hedges Used Differently in Two Subcorpora | 第65页 |
| ·A Summary of Interpersonal Function in News Commentary | 第65-69页 |
| ·Reasons for Hedges Used in News Commentary | 第65-66页 |
| ·Interpersonal Function of Hedges in News Commentary | 第66-69页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第69-71页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第69-70页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study and Suggestions for the Future Study | 第70-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-74页 |
| 导师及作者简介 | 第74-75页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第75页 |
