| Acknowledgements | 第4-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| 1.1 Background of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 Significance of the study | 第13-14页 |
| 1.3 Layout of the thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Studies on Academic Writing and Translation Universals | 第16-26页 |
| 2.1 Recent studies on academic writing and its translation | 第16-20页 |
| 2.1.1 The definition of academic prose | 第16-19页 |
| 2.1.2 Recent studies on the translation of academic writing | 第19-20页 |
| 2.2 Translation Universals hypotheses | 第20-25页 |
| 2.2.1 The conceptualization of Translation Universals | 第20-21页 |
| 2.2.2 Empirical studies of Translation Universals hypotheses | 第21-23页 |
| 2.2.3 Translation Universals and academic prose | 第23-24页 |
| 2.2.4 Limitations of previous studies | 第24-25页 |
| 2.3 Summary | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter Three Research Questions and Methodology | 第26-34页 |
| 3.1 Research questions | 第26-27页 |
| 3.2 Corpora used in this study | 第27-29页 |
| 3.3 Data collection and corpora tools | 第29-34页 |
| Chapter Four Linguistic Features of Translational Chinese Academic Prose | 第34-44页 |
| 4.1 The features of Simplification | 第34-36页 |
| 4.1.1 Lexical density | 第34-35页 |
| 4.1.2 Function words | 第35-36页 |
| 4.2 The features of Explicitation | 第36-40页 |
| 4.2.1 Average sentence length | 第37-38页 |
| 4.2.2 Average paragraph length | 第38-39页 |
| 4.2.3 Punctuation | 第39-40页 |
| 4.2.4 Conjunctions | 第40页 |
| 4.3 The features of Normalization | 第40-42页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第42-44页 |
| Chapter Five Linguistic Features of Translational English Academic Prose | 第44-56页 |
| 5.1 The features of Simplification | 第44-46页 |
| 5.1.1 Lexical density | 第44-45页 |
| 5.1.2 Function words | 第45-46页 |
| 5.2 The features of Explicitation | 第46-52页 |
| 5.2.1 Average sentence length | 第46-47页 |
| 5.2.2 Average paragraph length | 第47-48页 |
| 5.2.3 Punctuation | 第48页 |
| 5.2.4 Conjunctions | 第48-49页 |
| 5.2.5 Particles | 第49-50页 |
| 5.2.6 Modals,symbols and the word "to" | 第50-52页 |
| 5.3 The features of Normalization | 第52-53页 |
| 5.4 A cross-lingual comparison of translational English and Chinese academic prose | 第53-55页 |
| 5.4.1 Features of Simplification | 第53页 |
| 5.4.2 Features of Explicitation | 第53-54页 |
| 5.4.3 Features of Normalization | 第54-55页 |
| 5.5 Summary | 第55-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第56-61页 |
| 6.1 Major findings and their implications | 第56-59页 |
| 6.2 Limitations of this study | 第59-60页 |
| 6.3 Directions for future study | 第60-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-67页 |
