| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-10页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第10-13页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第13-14页 |
| LIST OF FIGURES | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第15-19页 |
| ·Research Background | 第15-16页 |
| ·The development of evidentiality | 第15-16页 |
| ·The application of evidentiality | 第16页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第19-55页 |
| ·Previous Research into Evidentiality | 第19-36页 |
| ·Definitions of evidentiality | 第19-22页 |
| ·Foreign studies on evidentiality | 第22-30页 |
| ·Domestic studies of evidentiality | 第30-36页 |
| ·Studies on Hard News and Soft News | 第36-46页 |
| ·Definition and classification of news | 第36-38页 |
| ·Characteristics of news | 第38页 |
| ·Comparison between hard news and soft news | 第38-43页 |
| ·Evidential studies in news | 第43-46页 |
| ·Theoretical Framework | 第46-55页 |
| ·Text linguistics and standards of textuality | 第46-51页 |
| ·Subjectivity and subjectivisation | 第51-55页 |
| Chapter Three RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第55-63页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第55页 |
| ·Operational Concepts | 第55-58页 |
| ·Working definition of evidentiality | 第55-57页 |
| ·The standards of textuality of news | 第57-58页 |
| ·Data and Data Collection | 第58-60页 |
| ·Source of hard and soft news | 第58页 |
| ·Number of samples | 第58-59页 |
| ·News corpus | 第59-60页 |
| ·Identification of evidentials | 第60页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第60-63页 |
| Chapter Four RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第63-83页 |
| ·General Features of Evidentiality in English News | 第63-73页 |
| ·Frequency of evidentials used in English hard and soft news | 第63-66页 |
| ·Distribution of evidential types in English hard and soft news | 第66-73页 |
| ·Comparison of Evidentials in Hard and Soft news | 第73-76页 |
| ·Comparison of frequency in hard and soft news | 第73-74页 |
| ·Comparison of evidential types in hard and soft news | 第74-76页 |
| ·The Realization of Textuality | 第76-83页 |
| ·The realization of intentionality and acceptability | 第76-79页 |
| ·The realization of informativity and intertextuality | 第79-80页 |
| ·The realization of situationality | 第80-81页 |
| ·The realization of cohesion and coherence | 第81-83页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第83-87页 |
| ·Major findings | 第83-84页 |
| ·Implications of the study | 第84-85页 |
| ·Limitations of the study and suggestions for future research | 第85-87页 |
| REFERENCES | 第87-93页 |
| APPENDIX | 第93-99页 |
| 附录：作者在攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第99页 |
