| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-11页 |
| Contents | 第11-14页 |
| List of Figures | 第14-15页 |
| List of Tables | 第15-16页 |
| Introduction | 第16-25页 |
| ·The Topic of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第17-22页 |
| ·The General Purpose of the Study | 第22-23页 |
| ·A Preview of the Thesis | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter One Interpersonal Features in RA | 第25-35页 |
| ·Introduction | 第25页 |
| ·Research Article in General | 第25-28页 |
| ·Academic Community as a Discourse Community | 第28-29页 |
| ·RA as Social Interaction | 第29-31页 |
| ·Interpersonal Meaning in RA | 第31-32页 |
| ·Some Key IP Features in RA | 第32-34页 |
| ·Hedging strategies | 第32-33页 |
| ·Modality | 第33页 |
| ·Mood patterns | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Two Modal Expressions and Their Interpersonal Functions in RA | 第35-55页 |
| ·Introduction | 第35页 |
| ·Theoretical Survey | 第35-41页 |
| ·Types of modality | 第36-37页 |
| ·Modality as a major exponent of IP | 第37-41页 |
| ·IP Realized Through Modality in RA | 第41-48页 |
| ·Epistemic modality and 'objectivity' in RA | 第41-44页 |
| ·Deontic modality in RA | 第44-45页 |
| ·Modal commitment | 第45页 |
| ·Modal responsibility | 第45-48页 |
| ·Metaphors of Modality | 第48-53页 |
| ·Interpersonal metaphor | 第48-49页 |
| ·Explicit objective modality | 第49-51页 |
| ·Nominalization | 第51-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-55页 |
| Chapter Three Mood and Its Interpersonal Functions in RA | 第55-65页 |
| ·Theoretical Survey | 第55-56页 |
| ·Two Main Kinds of Mood Patterns in RA | 第56-63页 |
| ·Imperatives | 第56-59页 |
| ·Interrogatives | 第59-63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter Four Beyond Functional Grammar: First Person Pronouns and Their Interpersonal Functions in RA | 第65-76页 |
| ·Introduction | 第65页 |
| ·Theoretical Survey | 第65-67页 |
| ·Personal pronoun as a pragmatic category | 第65-66页 |
| ·Personal pronoun in functional grammar | 第66-67页 |
| ·Authorial Identity in RA | 第67-71页 |
| ·Exclusive Personal Pronoun 'We' in RA | 第71-74页 |
| ·Summary | 第74-76页 |
| Chapter Five Beyond Functional Grammar: Citations and Their Interpersonal Functions in RA | 第76-85页 |
| ·Introduction | 第76页 |
| ·Citations and Intertextuality: Some Preliminaries | 第76-77页 |
| ·Citation Signals | 第77-79页 |
| ·Academic Citation in Soft Knowledge | 第79-81页 |
| ·Ethos and Evaluation: the Use of Reporting Verbs | 第81-84页 |
| ·Summary | 第84-85页 |
| Chapter Six Implications of the Study of IP in RA | 第85-89页 |
| ·Implications for Writing | 第85-86页 |
| ·Implications for the Teaching of Writing | 第86-87页 |
| ·Implications for Translation | 第87-89页 |
| Conclusion | 第89-91页 |
| Appendix | 第91-92页 |
| Bibliography | 第92-95页 |
