| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-18页 |
| 1.1 Background of the Study | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 Motivation of the Study | 第14-16页 |
| 1.3 Significance of the Research | 第16-17页 |
| 1.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第17-18页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第18-39页 |
| 2.1 Evaluation from a Linguistic Perspective | 第18-28页 |
| 2.1.1 The Evaluative Functions of Reporting Verbs | 第19-25页 |
| 2.1.2 Application of Appraisal Theory in Academic Discourses | 第25-28页 |
| 2.2 Forms of Citation and Their Evaluative Functions | 第28-31页 |
| 2.3 Genitives in English | 第31-39页 |
| 2.3.1 S-genitive and Of-genitive | 第31-35页 |
| 2.3.2 Genitives as a Reference-point Construction | 第35-37页 |
| 2.3.3 Properties of Possessor Norminals in Genitive Constructions | 第37-39页 |
| CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY | 第39-49页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第39页 |
| 3.2 Corpus Data | 第39-42页 |
| 3.2.1 The Novice Writers’Articles | 第40-41页 |
| 3.2.2 The Expert Writers’Articles | 第41-42页 |
| 3.3 Standard of Data Identification | 第42-46页 |
| 3.3.1 Differentiating Integral and Non-integral Citations | 第43页 |
| 3.3.2 Classifying Sub-types of Integral Citations | 第43-45页 |
| 3.3.3 Identifying Genitive Citations | 第45-46页 |
| 3.4 Data Collection | 第46-49页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION | 第49-79页 |
| 4.1 Overall Analysis of Citations | 第49-63页 |
| 4.1.1 Distribution of Integral Citations | 第54-57页 |
| 4.1.2 Distribution of Adjunct Citations | 第57-60页 |
| 4.1.3 Distribution of Genitive Citations | 第60-63页 |
| 4.2 Semantic Analysis of Genitive Citations in Academic Writing | 第63-72页 |
| 4.2.1 Intrinsic Relations Denoted by Possessee Nominals in GenitiveConstructions | 第63-65页 |
| 4.2.2 Possessee Nominals in Genitive Citations | 第65-67页 |
| 4.2.3 Classifying Possessee Nominals in Genitive Citations | 第67-69页 |
| 4.2.4 Distribution of Three Types of Possessee Nominals | 第69-72页 |
| 4.3 Evaluative Functions of Genitives | 第72-79页 |
| 4.3.1 Attitude and Engagement Resources in S-genitives | 第72-75页 |
| 4.3.2 Evaluative Functions of Ideological Possessee Nominals | 第75-76页 |
| 4.3.3 Evaluative Functions of Methodological Possessee Nominals | 第76-77页 |
| 4.3.4 Hybrid Genitives: Of-and-S-genitives | 第77-79页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第79-83页 |
| 5.1 Summary of the Major Findings | 第79-80页 |
| 5.2 Contributions of the Thesis | 第80-82页 |
| 5.3 Limitations and Suggestions | 第82-83页 |
| REFERENCES | 第83-91页 |
| 中文参考文献 | 第91-92页 |
| APPENDICES | 第92-105页 |
| Appendix 1 Articles in the Corpus | 第92-96页 |
| Appendix 2 Number of S-genitives and Of-genitives in Each Article | 第96-99页 |
| Appendix 3 Number of Citation Forms in Each Article | 第99-102页 |
| Appendix 4 Number of Subtypes of Integral Citations in Each Article | 第102-105页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第105-106页 |
| PUBLICATIONS | 第106页 |
