| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-14页 |
| Figures | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第17-32页 |
| ·General Statement | 第17-27页 |
| ·Abstracts | 第17-25页 |
| ·Definitions ofan abstract | 第17-18页 |
| ·Importance of abstracts | 第18页 |
| ·Importance of good abstracts | 第18-19页 |
| ·Types of abstracts | 第19-22页 |
| ·Variations of abstracts with language, culture, time, discipline, content and author | 第22-25页 |
| ·English abstracts of economic research papers | 第25-27页 |
| ·Rationale for the present research | 第27-30页 |
| ·The motivation of the present research | 第27-28页 |
| ·Reasons for adopting a systemic-functional approach | 第28-29页 |
| ·Data and the approach to data analysis | 第29-30页 |
| ·Significance of the present research | 第30页 |
| ·Research questions | 第30-31页 |
| ·Organizations of the present thesis | 第31-32页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第32-48页 |
| ·Overview | 第32页 |
| ·Different approaches to abstracts | 第32-43页 |
| ·Studies on skills for abstract writing | 第32-34页 |
| ·Studies on the structure of abstracts | 第34-39页 |
| ·Studies on the linguistic features of the abstract | 第39-43页 |
| ·The studies on abstracts from the perspectives of systemic-functional Linguistics | 第43-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47-48页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Theoretical Framework | 第48-64页 |
| ·Overview | 第48页 |
| ·Systemic-functional linguistics | 第48-50页 |
| ·The theoretical framework of the present study | 第50-61页 |
| ·Three meta-functions | 第51-60页 |
| ·The ideational meta-function | 第53-56页 |
| ·The transitivity | 第53-56页 |
| ·1 The material process and its participants | 第54-55页 |
| ·.2 The mental process | 第55页 |
| ·.3 The relational process | 第55页 |
| ·.4 The verbal process | 第55-56页 |
| ·.5 The behavioral process | 第56页 |
| ·.6 The existential process | 第56页 |
| ·Voice | 第56页 |
| ·The interpersonal meta-function | 第56-59页 |
| ·Mood | 第57-58页 |
| ·Modality and polarity | 第58-59页 |
| ·The textual meta-function | 第59-60页 |
| ·Theme | 第59-60页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第60页 |
| ·Register | 第60-61页 |
| ·Field | 第61页 |
| ·Tenor | 第61页 |
| ·Mode | 第61页 |
| ·Summary | 第61-64页 |
| Chapter 4 Realizations of the Three Meta-functions of English Economical Research Abstracts | 第64-138页 |
| ·Overview | 第64-65页 |
| ·The realization of the three meta-functions of sample abstract A | 第65-97页 |
| ·The realization of the ideational meta-function of sample abstract A | 第65-74页 |
| ·Transitivity | 第65-70页 |
| ·Voice | 第70-74页 |
| ·The realization of the interpersonal meta-function of sample abstract A | 第74-85页 |
| ·Mood | 第74-81页 |
| ·Modality | 第81-85页 |
| ·Modal verbal operators | 第81-82页 |
| ·Mood adjuncts | 第82-83页 |
| ·Polarity | 第83-85页 |
| ·The realization of the textual meta-function of one abstract | 第85-97页 |
| ·Theme | 第85-89页 |
| ·Multiple theme | 第88-89页 |
| ·The markedness of the themes | 第89页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第89-97页 |
| ·The realization of the three meta-functions of sample abstract B | 第97-122页 |
| ·The realization of the ideational meta-function of sample abstract B | 第98-106页 |
| ·Transitivity | 第98-103页 |
| ·Voice | 第103-106页 |
| ·The realization of the interpersonal meta-function of sample abstract B | 第106-112页 |
| ·Mood | 第106-111页 |
| ·Modality | 第111-112页 |
| ·Modal verbal operators | 第111页 |
| ·Mood adjuncts | 第111页 |
| ·Polarity | 第111-112页 |
| ·The realization of the textual meta-function of sample abstract B | 第112-122页 |
| ·Theme | 第112-116页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第116-122页 |
| ·The comparison of the three meta-functions of the two abstracts | 第122-124页 |
| ·The similarity | 第122-123页 |
| ·The difference | 第123页 |
| ·Summary | 第123-124页 |
| ·The realization of the three meta-functions of all the data | 第124-136页 |
| ·The realization of the ideational meta-function of the data | 第124-126页 |
| ·Transitivity | 第124-125页 |
| ·Voice | 第125-126页 |
| ·The realization of the interpersonal meta-function of all the data | 第126-131页 |
| ·Mood | 第126-129页 |
| ·Modality | 第129-131页 |
| ·Modal verbal operators | 第129-130页 |
| ·Mood adjuncts | 第130-131页 |
| ·Polarity | 第131页 |
| ·The realization of the textual meta-function | 第131-136页 |
| ·Theme | 第131-134页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第134-136页 |
| ·The common linguistic features of informative English abstracts of economic research papers | 第136-138页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Discussion and Explanation by the Register Theory | 第138-145页 |
| ·Overview | 第138页 |
| ·Register | 第138-139页 |
| ·The register of English abstracts of economic research papers | 第139-141页 |
| ·The field | 第139页 |
| ·The tenor | 第139-140页 |
| ·The mode | 第140-141页 |
| ·The register of the data and their realizations of the three meta-functions | 第141-143页 |
| ·The field and the ideational meta-function | 第141-142页 |
| ·The tenor and the interpersonal meta-function | 第142-143页 |
| ·The mode and the textual meta-function | 第143页 |
| ·Summary | 第143-145页 |
| Chapter Ⅵ Conclusion | 第145-148页 |
| ·The findings of the present study | 第145-146页 |
| ·The implications of the present study | 第146-147页 |
| ·The limitations of the present study | 第147-148页 |
| Bibliography | 第148-156页 |
