| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| abstract | 第7-9页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-20页 |
| 1.1 Background | 第12-17页 |
| 1.2 Purpose and Significance of the Research | 第17-19页 |
| 1.3 Overall Structure of the Thesis | 第19-20页 |
| CHAPTER TWO THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS ON MD | 第20-40页 |
| 2.1 Theoretical Perspectives of Communication and Function | 第20-21页 |
| 2.2 Categorizations of General Approach and Narrow Approaches of MD | 第21-30页 |
| 2.3 Interpersonal MD Models of Hyland: Interactive and Interactional MD | 第30-33页 |
| 2.4 Hall’s Theory on MD Divergences of Corpus English Writings | 第33-40页 |
| 2.4.1 Culture Theory on the High Context (HC) and the Low Context(LC) | 第33-35页 |
| 2.4.2 Two Aspects of the HC & the LC Culture Theory for MD Divergences | 第35-40页 |
| CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第40-44页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第40页 |
| 3.2 Data Collection: English Writing Samples (ECSEWS) from LOCNESS and Chinese Writing Samples (CCSEWS) from TECCL | 第40-41页 |
| 3.3 Description of the Collected Data in ECSEWS and CCSEWS | 第41页 |
| 3.4 MD Identifications and Analytical Approaches of the Collected Data in ECSEWS and CCSEWS | 第41-44页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MD USES BETWEEN ECSEWS AND CCSEWS | 第44-64页 |
| 4.1 Overall Distribution of MD Uses between ECSEWS and CCSEWS | 第44-50页 |
| 4.1.1 Overall Distribution of MD Uses in ECSEWS | 第45-48页 |
| 4.1.2 Overall Distribution of MD Uses in CCSEWS | 第48-50页 |
| 4.2 Similarities and Divergences in Interactive MD Uses in ECSEWS and CCSEWS | 第50-57页 |
| 4.2.1 Similarities in Interactive MD Uses in ECSEWS and CCSEWS | 第52-56页 |
| 4.2.2 Divergences in Interactive MD Use in ECSEWS and CCSEWS | 第56-57页 |
| 4.3 Similarities and Divergences in Interactional MD Uses in ECSEWS and CCSEWS .. | 第57-64页 |
| 4.3.1 Similarities in Interactional MD Uses in ECSEWS and CCSEWS | 第58-61页 |
| 4.3.2 Divergences in Interactional MD Uses in ECSEWS and CCSEWS | 第61-64页 |
| Chapter Five DISCUSSION ON THE MD SIMILARITIES AND DIVERGENCES BETWEEN ECSEWS AND CCSEWS | 第64-74页 |
| 5.1 Discussion on MD Similarities in ECSEWS and CCSEWS | 第64-68页 |
| 5.1.1 Constructing Discourse Coherence | 第65-66页 |
| 5.1.2 Showing Genre Features | 第66-68页 |
| 5.1.3 Creating Interpersonal Relationships | 第68页 |
| 5.2 Discussion on MD Divergences in ECSEWS and CCSEWS | 第68-74页 |
| 5.2.1 Different Communicative Responsibility Belongings Affected by the HC & the LC | 第69-71页 |
| 5.2.2 Different Communicative Social Relationship Orientations Affected by the HC & the LC | 第71-74页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第74-80页 |
| 6.1 Major Findings of the Study | 第74-75页 |
| 6.2 Pedagogical Implications | 第75-78页 |
| 6.3 Limitations of and Future Suggestions of the Research | 第78-80页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第80-85页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第85-86页 |
| APPENDIX 1 | 第86-89页 |
| APPENDIX 2 | 第89-92页 |
| APPENDIX 3 | 第92-94页 |
| PAPER(S) PUBLISHED DURING MA STUDIES | 第94页 |
