| Synopsis | 第1-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-16页 |
| ·Research Background | 第9-12页 |
| ·Motivation and Objectives of the Research | 第12-15页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-27页 |
| ·Introduction to Interpersonal Metafunction and Personal Pronoun System | 第16-18页 |
| ·Metafunctions in Systemic Functional Grammar | 第16-17页 |
| ·Interpersonal Metafunction | 第17页 |
| ·Personal Pronoun System | 第17-18页 |
| ·Introduction to Research Articles | 第18-20页 |
| ·Introduction to Academic Writing | 第20-21页 |
| ·Writer Role and Writer Identity in Academic Writing | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Use of First Person Pronouns in RAs | 第23-26页 |
| ·Previous Research on Identities behind the First Person Pronouns in RAs | 第23-24页 |
| ·Previous Research on Discourse Functions of the First Person Pronouns in RAs | 第24-25页 |
| ·Previous Research on the Use of First Person Pronouns in RAs across Disciplines and Cultures | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Concern of the Present Study | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter Three Corpus and Methodology | 第27-31页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第27页 |
| ·Corpus Construction | 第27-29页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第27-28页 |
| ·Corpus Compiling | 第28-29页 |
| ·Research Instruments | 第29页 |
| ·Methods of Analysis | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第31-52页 |
| ·Research Results | 第31-42页 |
| ·Results of First Person Pronouns in Sub-Corpus A | 第31-36页 |
| ·Distribution of First Person Pronouns across the Three Disciplines | 第31-35页 |
| ·Overall Frequencies of First Person Pronouns in Sub-Corpus A | 第35-36页 |
| ·Results of First Person Pronouns in Sub-Corpus B | 第36-42页 |
| ·Distribution of First Person Pronouns and Their Determiners across the Three Disciplines | 第36-40页 |
| ·Overall Frequencies of First Person Pronouns and Their Determiners in Sub-Corpus B | 第40-42页 |
| ·Discussion | 第42-52页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis of First Person Pronouns in Two Sub-Corpora | 第42-47页 |
| ·Similarities | 第42-45页 |
| ·Differences | 第45-47页 |
| ·Functional Analysis of First Person Pronouns in Two Sub-Corpora | 第47-52页 |
| ·Functional Analysis of I and We in Sub-Corpus A | 第47-49页 |
| ·Functional Analysis of 我_1 and 我们_1 in Sub-Corpus B | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第52-58页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第52-55页 |
| ·Implications for Academic Writing | 第55页 |
| ·Limitations of the Research | 第55-56页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Research | 第56-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-64页 |
| Appendix | 第64页 |
| Abstract | 第64-77页 |
| 摘要 | 第77-81页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第81-82页 |
| 导师及作者简介 | 第82页 |
