| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-21页 |
| ·The significance of the study | 第12-15页 |
| ·The importance of newspaper editorials | 第12-13页 |
| ·The significance of distribution patterns of appraisal resources in English newspaper editorials | 第13-15页 |
| ·The rationale of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·The objective of the study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Data collection and methodology | 第17-19页 |
| ·The organization of the dissertation | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter 2 Analytical Framework and Studies on English Editorials | 第21-54页 |
| ·Appraisal Systems | 第21-33页 |
| ·An overview of Appraisal Systems | 第21-23页 |
| ·Attitude | 第23-28页 |
| ·Engagement | 第28-32页 |
| ·Graduation | 第32-33页 |
| ·Voice, attribution and evaluative responsibility | 第33-37页 |
| ·Features of Appraisal | 第37-39页 |
| ·The prosodic features of Appraisal | 第37页 |
| ·Objectivity and subjectivity | 第37-39页 |
| ·Two modes of Appraisal: inscribed and invoked Appraisal | 第39-40页 |
| ·Appraisal loading | 第40页 |
| ·Emotion | 第40-41页 |
| ·Evaluative parameters in English editorials | 第41-42页 |
| ·Evaluative metaphor | 第42页 |
| ·The inadequacies of the Appraisal Systems and solutions | 第42-43页 |
| ·Studies on newspaper editorials at home and abroad | 第43-53页 |
| ·Studies on newspaper editorials at home | 第43-49页 |
| ·The studies of editorials abroad | 第49-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-54页 |
| Chapter 3 Appraisal Resources and Their Distribution Characteristics in English editorials | 第54-98页 |
| ·Attitude resources and their distribution | 第55-73页 |
| ·Affect resources and their distribution | 第55-63页 |
| ·Judgement resources and their distribution | 第63-70页 |
| ·Appreciation resources and their distribution | 第70-73页 |
| ·Engagement resources and their Distribution | 第73-92页 |
| ·Entertain resources | 第75-88页 |
| ·Counter resources | 第88-89页 |
| ·Deny resources | 第89-90页 |
| ·Attribute resources | 第90-92页 |
| ·Graduation resources and their distribution | 第92-96页 |
| ·Summary | 第96-98页 |
| Chapter 4 Distribution Characteristics of Appraisal Resources across Different Schematic structures of 30 English Editorials | 第98-115页 |
| ·Introduction | 第98页 |
| ·Appraisal resources in Headlines | 第98-101页 |
| ·Appraisal resources in Introduction | 第101-105页 |
| ·Appraisal resources in Body | 第105-109页 |
| ·Appraisal resources in Conclusions | 第109-113页 |
| ·Summary | 第113-115页 |
| Chapter 5 Voices, Evaluative Responsibility and Appraisal Mode in English editorials | 第115-150页 |
| ·Introduction | 第115页 |
| ·The voice of Attitude | 第115-121页 |
| ·Authorial and non-authorial Affect | 第115-117页 |
| ·Authorial and non-authorial Judgement | 第117-118页 |
| ·Authorial and non-authorial Appreciation | 第118-121页 |
| ·Voices from the perspective of heteroglossia | 第121-137页 |
| ·The averral and attribution | 第121-124页 |
| ·The authorial responsibility | 第124-125页 |
| ·Source types and textual integration | 第125-127页 |
| ·The attributions in English editorials | 第127-137页 |
| ·The Journalistic voices | 第137-143页 |
| ·The Appraisal mode of English editorials | 第143-149页 |
| ·Inscribed Appraisal | 第144-145页 |
| ·The invoked Appraisal | 第145-149页 |
| ·Summary | 第149-150页 |
| Chapter 6 Prosodic Realization, Evaluative Parameters and Evaluative Metaphors of English editorials | 第150-171页 |
| ·Prosodic realization of English editorials | 第150-153页 |
| ·Evaluative parameters in English editorials | 第153-162页 |
| ·Evaluative metaphors in English editorials | 第162-170页 |
| ·Introduction of evaluative metaphor | 第162-165页 |
| ·The analysis of evaluative metaphors in English editorials | 第165-168页 |
| ·The motivation and working mechanism for evaluative metaphors | 第168-169页 |
| ·The relations between grammatical metaphors and evaluative metaphors | 第169-170页 |
| ·Summary | 第170-171页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第171-181页 |
| ·Major findings of the present study | 第171-178页 |
| ·Implications | 第178-179页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for future study | 第179-181页 |
| Bibliography | 第181-188页 |
| Appendix: Index of Research Data | 第188-191页 |
| 博士在读期间发表的论文 | 第191-193页 |
