| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第7-10页 |
| ·Background and research problems | 第7-8页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Theoretical Framework | 第10-24页 |
| ·The general concept of genre | 第10-13页 |
| ·Definitions of genre | 第10-12页 |
| ·Genre and register | 第12-13页 |
| ·Genre analysis | 第13-18页 |
| ·Definitions and aims | 第13-14页 |
| ·Development of genre analysis | 第14-16页 |
| ·Approaches to genre analysis | 第16-18页 |
| ·Modality, Transitivity and Theme | 第18-21页 |
| ·Systemic-functional grammar (SFG) | 第18-19页 |
| ·Transitivity | 第19页 |
| ·Mood and Modality | 第19-20页 |
| ·Theme and Rheme | 第20-21页 |
| ·Previous work on brief tourist information | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ The Concept and Nature of Brief Tourist Information | 第24-31页 |
| ·The concept of brief tourist information (BTI) | 第24-25页 |
| ·Brief tourist information (BTI) as a genre | 第25-26页 |
| ·Brief tourist information (BTI) as a genre-mixing | 第26-31页 |
| ·Brief tourist information (BTI) as an informing text | 第27-28页 |
| ·Brief tourist information (BTI) as a promoting measure | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Research Design: Data and Methodology | 第31-37页 |
| ·Towards a framework for the analysis of BTI | 第31-32页 |
| ·Data | 第32-35页 |
| ·Methodology | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Analysis of Interpersonal Metafunction | 第37-58页 |
| ·Speech roles and mood in brief tourist information (BTI) | 第37-45页 |
| ·Speech roles in the data | 第37-38页 |
| ·Mood in the data | 第38-40页 |
| ·Relationship between speech roles and mood in the data | 第40-45页 |
| ·Modality analysis | 第45-53页 |
| ·Objectivity realized by Modality | 第45-51页 |
| ·Objectivity realized by Modal Adjuncts | 第51-53页 |
| ·Roles of audience in brief tourist information (BTI) | 第53-58页 |
| Chapter Ⅵ Analysis of Textual Metafunction | 第58-73页 |
| ·Typical choice of Theme in BTI texts | 第58-65页 |
| ·Marked and unmarked Theme | 第58-60页 |
| ·Unmarked Theme in declarative clauses | 第60-64页 |
| ·A conclusion of the typical choice of Theme in BTI texts | 第64-65页 |
| ·Stylistic effects of thematic variations | 第65-67页 |
| ·Adjuncts as the Theme | 第65-66页 |
| ·"There" structures as the Theme | 第66-67页 |
| ·Complements as the Theme | 第67页 |
| ·Multiple Theme and conjunctive items | 第67-69页 |
| ·Cohesive devices in BTI texts | 第69-73页 |
| ·Reference in BTI texts | 第69-71页 |
| ·Conjunctions and conjunctive expressions in BTI texts | 第71-72页 |
| ·Lexical choice as the cohesive devices in BTI texts | 第72-73页 |
| Chapter Ⅶ Discussion and Conclusions | 第73-76页 |
| ·The communicative purposes of BTI texts | 第73页 |
| ·View shift in BTI texts | 第73-76页 |
| ·Evaluation in the exposition | 第74-75页 |
| ·Interaction and negotiation with the readers | 第75-76页 |
| Chapter Ⅷ Implications and Limitations | 第76-78页 |
| ·Implications for pedagogy | 第76-77页 |
| ·Limitations and areas for further research | 第77-78页 |
| References | 第78-81页 |
| Appendix | 第81-96页 |
| Appendix 1: Websites where data are collected | 第81-82页 |
| Appendix 2: The corpus | 第82-85页 |
| Appendix 3: Webpage samples | 第85-96页 |
