| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-9页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第9-11页 |
| 摘要 | 第11-15页 |
| CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION | 第15-18页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Overview of the Thesis | 第17-18页 |
| CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW | 第18-33页 |
| ·Historical Development of Research Articles | 第18-19页 |
| ·Introduction to Academic Writing | 第19-22页 |
| ·Writer Role and Writer Identity in Academic Writing | 第22-25页 |
| ·The Discourse Functions of First Person Pronouns in Academic Writing | 第25-30页 |
| ·Fortanet, Harwood, and Kuo’s Models | 第25-27页 |
| ·Tang and John, Starfield and Ravelli, Hyland, and Chen and Yang’s Models | 第27-30页 |
| ·Cross-disciplinary and Cross-cultural Studies | 第30-33页 |
| CHAPTER III CORPUS AND METHODOLOGY | 第33-38页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第33-34页 |
| ·Corpus | 第34-36页 |
| ·Discipline Selection | 第34-35页 |
| ·Selection of Doctoral Dissertations | 第35-36页 |
| ·Corpus Building | 第36页 |
| ·Methods of Analysis | 第36-38页 |
| CHAPTER IV RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第38-57页 |
| ·Occurrences of Self-mention Items in the Corpus | 第38-40页 |
| ·Functional Analysis of First Person Pronouns and Writer Identities | 第40-48页 |
| ·Author as the Architect | 第42-43页 |
| ·Author as the Recounter of the Research Process | 第43-45页 |
| ·Author as the Opinion-holder | 第45-46页 |
| ·Author as the Originator | 第46-48页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis of I and we Used to Self-refer | 第48-50页 |
| ·Discussion | 第50-57页 |
| ·the Influence of the Chinese Academic Writing Convention | 第51-52页 |
| ·Cultural Collectivism and Individualism | 第52-54页 |
| ·Social Orientation of Chinese People in Self-representation and the Weak Writer Identity in Academic Texts | 第54-56页 |
| ·Other Orientation in Self-representation and the Use of First Person Pronouns | 第54-55页 |
| ·Authority Orientation in Self-representation and the Use of First Person Pronouns | 第55-56页 |
| ·Other Possible Influences | 第56-57页 |
| CHAPTER V CONCLUSION | 第57-63页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第57-60页 |
| ·Implications for Academic Writing | 第60-61页 |
| ·Limitations of the Research | 第61页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Research | 第61-63页 |
| REFERENCES | 第63-66页 |
| APPENDIX | 第66-67页 |
