| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-10页 |
| Abstract | 第10-11页 |
| 摘要 | 第11-14页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅰ INTRODUCTION | 第14-19页 |
| ·Author Self-mention and Identity in Academic Writing | 第14-15页 |
| ·Research on Author Self-mention in Academic Writing | 第15-16页 |
| ·Significance and Research Questions of the Present Study | 第16-18页 |
| ·Overview of the Thesis | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ LITERATURE REVIEW | 第19-31页 |
| ·Historical Development of Academic Writing | 第19-22页 |
| ·Notion of Author Identity | 第22-23页 |
| ·First Person Pronouns and Author Identity in Academic Writing | 第23-31页 |
| ·Semantic Reference of First Person Pronoun | 第24-25页 |
| ·Discoursal Functions of First Person Pronouns in Academic Writing...12 | 第25-27页 |
| ·First Person Pronouns in Academic Writing across Disciplines | 第27-29页 |
| ·First Person Pronouns in Academic Writing across Cultures | 第29-31页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ CORPORA CONSTRUCTION AND METHODOLOGY | 第31-35页 |
| ·Corpus | 第31-32页 |
| ·Selection of Discipline | 第31-32页 |
| ·Selection of Articles | 第32页 |
| ·Methodology | 第32-35页 |
| ·Quantitative Approach | 第32-33页 |
| ·Qualitative Approach | 第33-35页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅳ SELF-MENTION EXPRESSION IN THE CORPORA | 第35-55页 |
| ·Overall Occurrence and Frequency of Self-mention Expressions | 第35-36页 |
| ·First Person Pronoun | 第36-51页 |
| ·Semantic Reference of First Person Pronoun | 第36-41页 |
| ·Discoursal Functions of First Person Pronoun | 第41-51页 |
| ·Author as a Representative | 第44-45页 |
| ·Author as a Guide of Writing | 第45-46页 |
| ·Author as an Architect | 第46-47页 |
| ·Author as a Recounter of the Research Process | 第47-48页 |
| ·Author as an Opinion-holder | 第48-49页 |
| ·Author as an Originator | 第49-51页 |
| ·Author as a Narrator | 第51页 |
| ·The Use of the/this author/writer | 第51-55页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ DISCUSSION | 第55-60页 |
| ·First Person Pronouns | 第55-58页 |
| ·Discursal Functions of Self-mention Expressions | 第58-60页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅵ CONCLUSION | 第60-65页 |
| ·A Summary of the Present Study and Major Findings | 第60-62页 |
| ·Implications | 第62-63页 |
| ·Publication and Communication of Academic Writing | 第62页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第62-63页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study | 第63-64页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Research | 第64-65页 |
| REFERENCES | 第65-69页 |
| APPENDIX | 第69-71页 |
