| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| List of Tables | 第7-8页 |
| List of Figures | 第8-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Background Information | 第11-12页 |
| ·Research Questions and Aims | 第12-13页 |
| ·Significance | 第13页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-28页 |
| ·Corpus Linguistics at Home and Abroad | 第15-17页 |
| ·Corpus Linguistics and English Corpus Linguistics Studies Abroad | 第15-16页 |
| ·Corpus Linguistics and English Corpus Linguistics Studies at Home | 第16-17页 |
| ·Definition of Stance and Terms Related to Stance | 第17-20页 |
| ·Classification of Stance Markers | 第20-22页 |
| ·Biber's Classification | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Classifications of Other Scholars | 第21-22页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Stance Markers at Home and Abroad | 第22-27页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Stance Markers Abroad | 第22-26页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Stance at Home | 第26-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第28-39页 |
| ·Corpora Employed | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Learners' Corpus: SWECCL | 第28-29页 |
| ·British National Corpus | 第29-30页 |
| ·Retrieval Software to Be Employed | 第30-31页 |
| ·Theoretical Framework | 第31-33页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第33-38页 |
| ·Identification of Stance Markers | 第33-37页 |
| ·Annotations of the Situation of the Corpus | 第37页 |
| ·Data Retrieval Process | 第37-38页 |
| ·Manual Check | 第38页 |
| ·Statistic Calculation and Analysis | 第38页 |
| ·Summary | 第38-39页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第39-59页 |
| ·General Characteristics of Stance Markers in the Two Corpora | 第39-43页 |
| ·Frequency and Distribution of Stance Markers in SECCL | 第39-41页 |
| ·Frequency and Distribution of Stance Markers in BNC | 第41-43页 |
| ·Comparisons of Stance Markers Used by Chinese Learners and Native Speakers | 第43-54页 |
| ·Comparisons of the Overall Frequency and Distribution of Types of Stance Markers across SECCL and BNC | 第43-44页 |
| ·Detailed Information of the Comparisons of the Frequency and Distribution of Types of Stance Markers in SECCL and BNC | 第44-54页 |
| ·Possible Causes of the Differences | 第54-58页 |
| ·Language Differences | 第55-56页 |
| ·Time-gaining Strategies in Communication | 第56-57页 |
| ·The Shortage of Second Language Input | 第57-58页 |
| ·Test-related Influence | 第58页 |
| ·Summary | 第58-59页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第59-63页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第59-61页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第61页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Studies and Suggestions for Future Studies | 第61-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-67页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ:Grammatical Stance Markers | 第67-70页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ:Transcripts of Sample Oral Tests | 第70-75页 |
