| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-19页 |
| ·Background information | 第14-15页 |
| ·The rationale of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research objective | 第16-17页 |
| ·The significance and creativity of the study | 第17-18页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第19-25页 |
| ·Study of hedges abroad | 第19-23页 |
| ·Study of hedges from the perspective of logics | 第19-20页 |
| ·Study of hedges from the perspective of semantics | 第20-21页 |
| ·Study of hedges from the perspective of pragmatics | 第21页 |
| ·Study of hedges from the perspective of discourse analysis | 第21-23页 |
| ·Study of hedges in China | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Design | 第25-36页 |
| ·The theoretical framework | 第25-32页 |
| ·Prince, Frader and Bosk’s taxonomy of hedges | 第25-27页 |
| ·Hyland's model | 第27-30页 |
| ·The proposed classification model of hedges for the present study | 第30-32页 |
| ·Theoretical foundation | 第32-33页 |
| ·Data collection | 第33-34页 |
| ·Methodology | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter 4 A Corpus Based Functional Analysis of Hedges in English Editorials | 第36-79页 |
| ·Genre features of editorial | 第38-41页 |
| ·Communicative purposes | 第38-39页 |
| ·Move structure | 第39-41页 |
| ·Corpus based analysis of hedges and their functions in editorial | 第41-79页 |
| ·Overall distribution of hedges in editorial | 第42-45页 |
| ·Overall distribution of different class of hedges in editorial | 第45-63页 |
| ·Class distribution of hedges in different moves of editorial | 第63-73页 |
| ·Move comparison of the hedging devices in editorials | 第73-79页 |
| Chapter 5 A Summary of the Functions of Hedges in Editorial | 第79-85页 |
| ·The explanation of hedging phenomenon in editorial | 第79-80页 |
| ·Functions of hedges in editorial | 第80-85页 |
| ·Ideational function | 第80-81页 |
| ·Interpersonal function | 第81-85页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第85-90页 |
| ·Major findings | 第85-87页 |
| ·Implications | 第87-88页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study and suggestions for furtherch research | 第88-90页 |
| References | 第90-98页 |
| Appendix | 第98-106页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第106-107页 |
| 作者简介 | 第107页 |
