| 摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-17页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第9-12页 |
| 1.2 Research Objectives and Significance | 第12-15页 |
| 1.3 The Organization of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第17-25页 |
| 2.1 Evaluation in Academic Book Reviews | 第17-21页 |
| 2.2 Promotion in Academic Book Reviews | 第21-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第25-28页 |
| 3.1 Genre Integrity and Genre Colonization | 第25页 |
| 3.2 Social Interactions in Academic Book Reviews | 第25-26页 |
| 3.3 Mitigation Devices of Criticism in Academic Book Reviews | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 4 Methodology | 第28-31页 |
| 4.1 Corpus Description | 第28-29页 |
| 4.2 Corpus Analysis | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter 5 Results | 第31-48页 |
| 5.1 The General Generic Structure of BRs in the Corpus | 第31-37页 |
| 5.1.1 The Global Move Structure | 第31-34页 |
| 5.1.2 Praises and Criticisms in the Openings | 第34-36页 |
| 5.1.3 Praises and Criticisms in the Closings | 第36-37页 |
| 5.2 Statistic Comparison of Critical BRs and Criticisms between Block A and B | 第37-40页 |
| 5.2.1 Comparison of the Frequency of Critical/Uncritical BRs | 第37-38页 |
| 5.2.2 Comparison of the Frequency of Mitigated/Unmitigated Criticism | 第38-40页 |
| 5.3 The Use of Mitigation Devices in Both Blocks | 第40-48页 |
| 5.3.1 The Five Main Mitigation Devices in Both Blocks | 第41页 |
| 5.3.2 Other Six Mitigation Devices in Both Blocks | 第41-44页 |
| 5.3.3 Three New Mitigation Devices | 第44-48页 |
| Chapter 6 Discussion and Conclusion | 第48-58页 |
| 6.1 Generic Structure: Criticisms in the Openings and Endings | 第48-51页 |
| 6.2 Comparison of un/critical BRs and un/mitigated criticisms in Two Blocks | 第51-54页 |
| 6.3 Main and New Mitigation Devices | 第54-58页 |
| References | 第58-62页 |
| Appendix A Information about Data in Block A | 第62-68页 |
| Appendix B Information about Data in Block B | 第68-74页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第74-75页 |
