| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-11页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·The Theoretical Background | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Research Orientation and Significance | 第12-15页 |
| ·Aims, Corpus and Methodology | 第15-16页 |
| ·Organization of the Dissertation | 第16-17页 |
| 2 Genre and Genre Analysis | 第17-33页 |
| ·The Concept of Genre | 第17-27页 |
| ·What is Genre?-Swalesian School & Australian School | 第17-20页 |
| ·The Concept of Genre-A Working Definition | 第20-24页 |
| ·The Relationship between Genre and Some Relevant Terms | 第24-27页 |
| ·The Concept of Genre Analysis | 第27-33页 |
| ·What is Genre Analysis? | 第27-30页 |
| ·Two Examples of Genre Analysis | 第30-33页 |
| 3 The Genre of Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第33-42页 |
| ·The Significance of Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第33-35页 |
| ·Presidential Inaugural Addresses as a Persuasive Genre | 第35-37页 |
| ·General Features of Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第37-42页 |
| 4 Genre Analysis of Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第42-82页 |
| ·The Analysis of Presidential Inaugural Addresses (PIAs) in Terms of Generic Structure | 第42-67页 |
| ·Moves and Strategies of the First PIAs | 第42-61页 |
| ·Moves and Strategies of the Second PIAs | 第61-67页 |
| ·Linguistic Features of Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第67-82页 |
| ·Linguistic Features at the Syntactic Level | 第67-72页 |
| ·Linguistic Features at the Rhetorical Level | 第72-82页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第82-84页 |
| Bibliography | 第84-89页 |
