| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| List of Tables | 第8-9页 |
| List of Figures | 第9-10页 |
| List of Acronyms | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-23页 |
| ·The social view towards research articles | 第15-17页 |
| ·Objectives of the study | 第17-19页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第19-20页 |
| ·Outline of the dissertation | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter Two Key concepts defined | 第23-33页 |
| ·The RA genre | 第23-27页 |
| ·The concept of the RA | 第24页 |
| ·Characteristics of the RA | 第24-27页 |
| ·Identity | 第27-32页 |
| ·The concept of identity | 第27-29页 |
| ·Discoursal construction of identity | 第29-30页 |
| ·Writer identity in academic writing | 第30-32页 |
| ·The RA genre and authorial identity | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Three Literature review | 第33-53页 |
| ·Interaction in academic writing | 第33-42页 |
| ·Under different terms | 第34-40页 |
| ·On different aspects | 第40-42页 |
| ·Interaction in RA genre | 第42-46页 |
| ·Identity construction in academic discourse | 第46-51页 |
| ·Theoretical research on identity construction in academic writing | 第46-48页 |
| ·Practical research on identity construction in academic writing | 第48-51页 |
| ·Identity construction in RA genre | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Four Theoretical framework | 第53-71页 |
| ·Hyland’s model of academic interaction | 第53-60页 |
| ·Stance and writer-oriented interaction | 第53-57页 |
| ·Hedges | 第54-55页 |
| ·Boosters | 第55-56页 |
| ·Attitude markers | 第56-57页 |
| ·Self-mention | 第57页 |
| ·Engagement and reader-oriented interaction | 第57-60页 |
| ·Reader pronouns | 第57-58页 |
| ·Personal asides | 第58页 |
| ·Appeals to shared knowledge | 第58页 |
| ·Directives | 第58-59页 |
| ·Questions | 第59-60页 |
| ·Genre analysis | 第60-64页 |
| ·Traditions of genre analysis theories | 第60-62页 |
| ·Genre analysis of RAs | 第62-64页 |
| ·The framework used in this study | 第64-71页 |
| ·Motivations for the present framework | 第64-65页 |
| ·The framework for analysing interactional features in RAs | 第65-71页 |
| Chapter Five Research design | 第71-82页 |
| ·Data selection and corpus building | 第71-77页 |
| ·Data selection | 第71-74页 |
| ·Corpus building | 第74-77页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第77-82页 |
| ·Annotation | 第77-80页 |
| ·Method of analysis | 第80-82页 |
| Chapter Six Frequency of stance and engagement markers in English and Chinese RAs | 第82-159页 |
| ·Frequency of stance markers in English and Chinese RAs | 第82-122页 |
| ·Hedges in English and Chinese RAs | 第83-97页 |
| ·Identification of hedges | 第83-86页 |
| ·Frequency of hedges | 第86-97页 |
| ·Boosters in English and Chinese RAs | 第97-104页 |
| ·Identification of boosters | 第98-99页 |
| ·Frequency of boosters | 第99-104页 |
| ·Attitude markers in English and Chinese RAs | 第104-111页 |
| ·Identification of attitude markers | 第104-105页 |
| ·Frequency of attitude markers | 第105-111页 |
| ·Self-mention in English and Chinese RAs | 第111-121页 |
| ·Identification of self-mention | 第112页 |
| ·Frequency of self-mention | 第112-121页 |
| ·Summary of stance markers used in RAs | 第121-122页 |
| ·Frequency of engagement markers in English and Chinese RAs | 第122-159页 |
| ·Reader pronouns in English and Chinese RAs | 第123-130页 |
| ·Identification of reader pronouns | 第124-125页 |
| ·Frequency of reader pronouns | 第125-130页 |
| ·Personal asides in English and Chinese RAs | 第130-136页 |
| ·Identification of personal asides | 第130-131页 |
| ·Frequency of personal asides | 第131-136页 |
| ·Appeals to shared knowledge in English and Chinese RAs | 第136-142页 |
| ·Identification of appeals to shared knowledge | 第136-139页 |
| ·Frequency of appeals to shared knowledge | 第139-142页 |
| ·Directives in English and Chinese RAs | 第142-152页 |
| ·Identification of directives | 第142-144页 |
| ·Frequency of directives | 第144-152页 |
| ·Questions in English and Chinese RAs | 第152-156页 |
| ·Identification of questions | 第152-153页 |
| ·Frequency of questions | 第153-156页 |
| ·Summary of engagement markers used in RAs | 第156-159页 |
| Chapter Seven Distribution of stance and engagement markers across generic structure in English and Chinese RAs | 第159-199页 |
| ·Distribution of stance markers across generic structure in English and Chinese RAs | 第159-177页 |
| ·Hedges across generic structure | 第160-164页 |
| ·Boosters across generic structure | 第164-168页 |
| ·Attitude markers across generic structure | 第168-172页 |
| ·Self-mention across generic structure | 第172-176页 |
| ·Summary of stance markers across generic structure in English and Chinese RAs | 第176-177页 |
| ·Distribution of engagement markers across generic structure in English and Chinese RAs | 第177-199页 |
| ·Reader pronouns across generic structure | 第179-182页 |
| ·Personal asides across generic structure | 第182-186页 |
| ·Appeals to shared knowledge across generic structure in RAs | 第186-189页 |
| ·Directives across generic structure | 第189-194页 |
| ·Questions across generic structure | 第194-197页 |
| ·Summary of engagement markers in English and Chinese RAs | 第197-199页 |
| Chapter Eight Pragmatic analysis of authorial identity construction | 第199-218页 |
| ·Manifestations of RA writers’social identity | 第199-204页 |
| ·Metapragmatic awareness in authorial identity construction | 第204-205页 |
| ·Social and psychological features of English and Chinese RAs | 第205-218页 |
| ·Reconciliation between ethical canons and cognitive constructs | 第206-210页 |
| ·Beliefs about utterance production and interpretation | 第210-212页 |
| ·Perceptions of face | 第212-216页 |
| ·Implementation of academic norms | 第216-218页 |
| Chapter Nine Conclusion | 第218-229页 |
| ·Summary of major findings | 第218-221页 |
| ·Implications of the current research | 第221-225页 |
| ·Implications for RA writing | 第221-223页 |
| ·Implications for the teaching of academic writing | 第223-225页 |
| ·Limitations of the research | 第225-227页 |
| ·Recommendations for future research | 第227-229页 |
| Bibliography | 第229-243页 |
| Appendices | 第243-257页 |
| Appendix 1 English and Chinese RAs used as data of this study | 第243-246页 |
| Appendix 2 Excerpts of English and Chinese RAs | 第246-257页 |
