| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 1 The Rise and Development of the Theory of Grammatical Metaphor | 第12-29页 |
| ·The Rise of the Theory of Grammatical Metaphor | 第12-19页 |
| ·deational grammatical metaphor | 第13-16页 |
| ·The technique used for bringing out the metaphorical nature | 第14-15页 |
| ·Distribution of transitivity metaphors | 第15-16页 |
| ·Dead metaphor | 第16页 |
| ·Interpersonal grammatical metaphor | 第16-19页 |
| ·Metaphors of modality | 第16-18页 |
| ·Metaphors of mood | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Concept of the Term Congruence | 第19-23页 |
| ·The Concept of Congruence in Earlier Work by Halliday | 第19-21页 |
| ·The concept of congruence and markedness | 第19-20页 |
| ·The concept of congruence in social context | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Semogenetic Perspective toward Congruency and Incongruency | 第21-23页 |
| ·Later Development of the Theory of GM | 第23-29页 |
| ·Textual metaphor | 第23-25页 |
| ·GM in the ideation base | 第25-29页 |
| ·Grammar as theory of experience | 第25-26页 |
| ·How human experiences are construed by grammar | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter 2 Stylistic Observations on Academic English | 第29-34页 |
| ·The Overall Stylistic Features of Academic English | 第29-30页 |
| ·Lexical Features of Academic English to Achieve Formality | 第30-31页 |
| ·Grammatical Features of Academic English | 第31-34页 |
| ·Extensive use of passive voice | 第31-32页 |
| ·Frequent use of the present tense | 第32页 |
| ·Preference to long sentences with many non-finite verb constructions | 第32页 |
| ·Frequent use of nominalization | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter 3 The Role of GM in Academic English | 第34-62页 |
| ·Nominalization as Coherence Device | 第34-38页 |
| ·The concept of cohesion | 第34页 |
| ·Grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion | 第34-35页 |
| ·Nominalization as cohesive device | 第35-38页 |
| ·Nominalization of the verb only | 第36-37页 |
| ·Nominalization of the verb together with its other components | 第37页 |
| ·Nominalization of the modal verb | 第37页 |
| ·Nominalization of the synonym of the verb in the previous clause | 第37-38页 |
| ·Nominalization of the Rhematic verbal Group | 第38页 |
| ·GM as Resources for Making the Writing Objective | 第38-42页 |
| ·The role of nominalization and adjectivalization | 第38-40页 |
| ·The role of interpersonal metaphor to achieve objectivity | 第40-42页 |
| ·GM as Resources for Construing Technicality | 第42-47页 |
| ·GM as Resources for Reasoning | 第47-49页 |
| ·GM as Resources to Achieve Abstractness and Generalization | 第49-50页 |
| ·GM as Resources for Construing Taxonomy | 第50-52页 |
| ·Some Principles not Applicable to Academic Chinese | 第52-56页 |
| ·More overt processes in academic Chinese | 第52-53页 |
| ·Fewer interpersonal metaphors in academic Chinese | 第53-55页 |
| ·More clause complexes in academic Chinese | 第55-56页 |
| ·The Gain and Loss of GM in Academic English | 第56-58页 |
| ·Ways of Unpacking Grammatical Metaphors | 第58-62页 |
| ·Step by Step Unpacking | 第58-59页 |
| ·Tenor-oriented Unpacking | 第59-62页 |
| Chapter 4 Summary and Conclusion | 第62-64页 |
| References | 第64-67页 |
