| ABSTRACT | 第1-11页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter I INTRODUCTION | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter II LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-25页 |
| ·Style and Stylistics | 第17-18页 |
| ·Theory of Functional Stylistics | 第18-19页 |
| ·Transitivity System | 第19-22页 |
| ·Components of Transitivity | 第19-20页 |
| ·Types of Processes | 第20-22页 |
| ·Previous studies of transitivity | 第22-24页 |
| ·Previous studies of transitivity of literary discourse | 第22-23页 |
| ·Previous studies of transitivity of practical discourse | 第23-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter III METHODOLOGY | 第25-31页 |
| ·Research design | 第25页 |
| ·Pretest | 第25页 |
| ·Corpus Establishment | 第25-27页 |
| ·Selection of Journals | 第25-26页 |
| ·Selection of sample RAs | 第26页 |
| ·Compilation of the corpus | 第26-27页 |
| ·Data collection and analysis | 第27-31页 |
| ·Identification of ranking clauses | 第27-29页 |
| ·Identification of process types | 第29-30页 |
| ·Counting and analysis of process types | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter IV RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第31-40页 |
| ·Transitivity system in medical RAs | 第31-37页 |
| ·Occurrence frequencies of six process types and percentages of their use in medical RAs | 第31-32页 |
| ·Analyses of six process types | 第32-37页 |
| ·Analyses of material processes | 第32-33页 |
| ·Analyses of relational processes | 第33-35页 |
| ·Analyses of mental processes | 第35-36页 |
| ·Analyses of verbal processes | 第36-37页 |
| ·Analyses of existential processes and behavioural processes | 第37页 |
| ·Transitivity structure and stylistic features of medical RAs | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter V CONCLUSION | 第40-42页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第42-46页 |
| NOTES AND QUOTATIONS | 第46-47页 |
| APPENDIX ⅠHalliday’s (2000) Criteria for distinguishing process types | 第47-48页 |
| APPENDIX ⅡExamples of verbs realizing the processes by Halliday(2000) and Thompson (2000) | 第48-49页 |
| APPENDIX ⅢList of medical RAs applied in the corpus | 第49-51页 |
| CURRICULUM VITAE AND PUBLICATIONS | 第51-52页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第52页 |
