| ABSTRACT | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第7-16页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第16-28页 |
| 1.1 What is Evidentiality? | 第16-20页 |
| 1.2 Background of the Study | 第20-23页 |
| 1.3 Significance of the Study | 第23-24页 |
| 1.4 Research Questions | 第24-25页 |
| 1.5 Organization of the Thesis | 第25-28页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第28-48页 |
| 2.1 Introduction | 第28页 |
| 2.2 Studies on Evidentiality | 第28-38页 |
| 2.2.1 The typological approach | 第28-31页 |
| 2.2.2 The pragmatic approach | 第31-34页 |
| 2.2.3 The cognitive approach | 第34-37页 |
| 2.2.4 Systemic-functional linguistic approach | 第37-38页 |
| 2.3 Studies on Research Article Abstracts | 第38-43页 |
| 2.3.1 Studies on structural analysis of research article abstracts | 第39-40页 |
| 2.3.2 Studies on linguistic characteristics of research article abstracts | 第40-43页 |
| 2.4 Comments on Previous Studies | 第43-45页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第45-48页 |
| CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY AND DATA COLLECTION | 第48-56页 |
| 3.1 Introduction | 第48页 |
| 3.2 Data Collection | 第48-49页 |
| 3.3 Research Procedure | 第49-55页 |
| 3.3.1 A sample study | 第49-51页 |
| 3.3.2 Tag of the data | 第51-52页 |
| 3.3.3 Data retrieval and analysis | 第52-55页 |
| 3.4 Summary | 第55-56页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR LINGUISTIC REALIZATIONS OF EVIDENTIALITY IN ABSTRACTS OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE RESEARCH ARTICLES | 第56-74页 |
| 4.1 Introduction | 第56页 |
| 4.2 Classification of Evidentiality in English and Chinese Abstracts | 第56-60页 |
| 4.3 Evidentials in English and Chinese Abstracts | 第60-71页 |
| 4.3.1 Evidentials in English abstracts | 第60-66页 |
| 4.3.2 Evidentials in Chinese abstracts | 第66-71页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第71-74页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EVIDENTIALITY IN ABSTRACTS OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE RESEARCH ARTICLES | 第74-110页 |
| 5.1 Introduction | 第74页 |
| 5.2 Distribution and Frequency of Evidentiality in English and Chinese Abstracts59 | 第74-80页 |
| 5.3 Reporting Evidentials in Abstracts of English and Chinese Research Articles65 | 第80-97页 |
| 5.3.1 Reporting verbs | 第80-86页 |
| 5.3.2 (Author+date) forms | 第86-88页 |
| 5.3.3 Information sources of reporting evidentials | 第88-95页 |
| 5.3.4 Nouns in reporting evidentials | 第95-97页 |
| 5.4 Inferring Evidentials in Abstracts of English and Chinese Research Articles 82 | 第97-100页 |
| 5.5 Belief Evidentials in English and Chinese Abstracts | 第100-103页 |
| 5.6 Similarities and Differences in the Use of Evidentiality between English and Chinese Abstracts | 第103-109页 |
| 5.6.1 Similarities | 第104-105页 |
| 5.6.2 Differences | 第105-109页 |
| 5.7 Summary | 第109-110页 |
| CHAPTER SIX A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY STUDY OF EVIDENTIALITY IN ABSTRACTS OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE RESEARCH ARTICLES | 第110-150页 |
| 6.1 Introduction | 第110页 |
| 6.2 A Cross-disciplinary Study of Evidentiality in Abstracts of English Research Articles | 第110-134页 |
| 6.2.1 Reporting evidentials in abstracts of English Research Articles across disciplines | 第112-125页 |
| 6.2.2 Inferring evidentials in English abstracts across disciplines | 第125-127页 |
| 6.2.3 Belief evidentials in English abstracts across disciplines | 第127-129页 |
| 6.2.4 Similarities and differences | 第129-134页 |
| 6.3 A Cross-disciplinary Study of Evidentiality in Chinese Abstracts | 第134-146页 |
| 6.3.1 Overall distribution and lexicogrammatical realizations of evidentiality in Chinese abstracts across disciplines | 第134-136页 |
| 6.3.2 Information sources in Chinese abstracts across disciplines | 第136-138页 |
| 6.3.3 Reporting verbs in Chinese abstracts across disciplines | 第138-141页 |
| 6.3.4 Modal verbs in Chinese abstracts across disciplines | 第141-143页 |
| 6.3.5 Similarities and differences | 第143-146页 |
| 6.4 Discussion | 第146-148页 |
| 6.5 Summary | 第148-150页 |
| CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION | 第150-158页 |
| 7.1 Introduction | 第150页 |
| 7.2 Major Findings of the Study | 第150-154页 |
| 7.3 Significance and Implication of the Research | 第154-155页 |
| 7.4 Limitations of the Study and Prospects for Future Research | 第155-158页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第158-164页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅰ THE SOURCE OF DATA | 第164-172页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅱ DATA TAG SAMPLES | 第172-174页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅲ SAMPLES OF DATA RETRIEVAL | 第174-177页 |
| 攻读学位期间取得的研究成果 | 第177-178页 |
| 个人简况及联系方式 | 第178-180页 |
