| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| 1 Literature Review | 第14-24页 |
| ·Stance: an overview of the literature | 第14页 |
| ·Reporting clauses: an overview of the literature | 第14-21页 |
| ·Previous empirical studies on the construction of stance in reporting clauses | 第21-24页 |
| 2 Methodology | 第24-28页 |
| ·Research questions | 第24页 |
| ·Corpus-based approach | 第24页 |
| ·Corpora used in this study | 第24-25页 |
| ·The software employed in this study | 第25-26页 |
| ·Research procedures | 第26-28页 |
| 3 Results and Discussion | 第28-55页 |
| ·Overall comparison of reporting clauses in two corpora | 第28-32页 |
| ·Comparison of self-sourced reports with human subjects in two corpora | 第32-43页 |
| ·Comparison of self-sourced reports with non-human subjects in two corpora | 第43-50页 |
| ·Comparison of self-sourced reports with it subject and passive voice in two corpora | 第50-55页 |
| Conclusion | 第55-58页 |
| References | 第58-63页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第63页 |
