| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7页 |
| Abbreviations | 第11-13页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第13-18页 |
| 1.1 Fairy tales and short stories | 第13-14页 |
| 1.2 Functional stylistics | 第14-16页 |
| 1.3 The objectives and significance of the study | 第16页 |
| 1.4 The organization of the study | 第16-18页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第18-24页 |
| 2.1 A review of functional stylistic studies | 第18-22页 |
| 2.2 A review of stylistic studies of fairy tales | 第22-24页 |
| 3. Theoretical Framework | 第24-38页 |
| 3.1 Some basic concepts of SFG | 第24-25页 |
| 3.2 Language complexity | 第25-26页 |
| 3.2.1 Lexical density | 第25-26页 |
| 3.2.2 Grammatical intricacy | 第26页 |
| 3.3 Logical Meaning | 第26-33页 |
| 3.3.1 Taxis(degree of interdependency) | 第26-27页 |
| 3.3.2 Logico-semantic relation | 第27-33页 |
| 3.4 Experiential Meaning | 第33-38页 |
| 3.4.1 Transitivity | 第33-36页 |
| 3.4.2 Circumstance | 第36-38页 |
| 4. Research Methodology | 第38-41页 |
| 4.1 Research questions | 第38页 |
| 4.2 Data collection | 第38-40页 |
| 4.3 Research methods and procedures | 第40-41页 |
| 5. Comparison between Fairy Tales and Short Stories in terms of Language Complexity | 第41-55页 |
| 5.1 Comparison between the two genres in terms of lexical density | 第41-46页 |
| 5.2 Comparison between the two genres in terms of grammatical intricacy | 第46-52页 |
| 5.3 Difficulty of reading | 第52-53页 |
| 5.4 Summary | 第53-55页 |
| 6. Comparison between Fairy tales and Short Stories in terms of IdeationalMetafunction | 第55-68页 |
| 6.1 Comparison between the two genres in terms of logical meaning | 第55-60页 |
| 6.2 Comparison between the two genres in terms of experiential meaning | 第60-66页 |
| 6.2.1 Comparison between transitivity selection | 第60-64页 |
| 6.2.2 Comparison between circumstances | 第64-66页 |
| 6.3 Summary | 第66-68页 |
| Conclusion | 第68-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-75页 |
| Appendix 1 Other Data of Each Text | 第75-85页 |
| Appendix 2 Samples of Annotation | 第85-87页 |
