| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·Research background | 第10-12页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research objectives | 第13页 |
| ·The structure of the paper | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-29页 |
| ·Gender and speech | 第15-19页 |
| ·Definition and the usage of gender | 第15-17页 |
| ·Difference between gender and sex | 第17-18页 |
| ·Relationships between gender and speech | 第18-19页 |
| ·Effectiveness of the Corpus-based Approaches on the Sociolinguistic Studies | 第19-21页 |
| ·BNC corpus and the corpora employed in this study | 第21-22页 |
| ·Intensifiers | 第22-24页 |
| ·Definitions and roles of intensifiers | 第22-23页 |
| ·Theoretical structure of intensifiers | 第23-24页 |
| ·Previous studies of intensifiers based on corpus | 第24-27页 |
| ·A summary | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Design | 第29-34页 |
| ·Research questions | 第29页 |
| ·Research instruments | 第29-31页 |
| ·Corpora adopted | 第29-30页 |
| ·Statistic tools used | 第30-31页 |
| ·Research procedures | 第31-32页 |
| ·Relevant with the coverage of the present study | 第31-32页 |
| ·Introduction of frequencies comparison of selected intensifiers | 第32页 |
| ·Importance of data interpretation | 第32-33页 |
| ·A summary | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter 4 Findings and Discussion | 第34-51页 |
| ·Overall frequency analysis of intensifiers across two corpora | 第34-36页 |
| ·Comparative analysis of differences in the frequency use of intensifiers between men and women | 第36-46页 |
| ·Frequency analysis of intensifiers used more by women | 第36-41页 |
| ·Frequency analysis of certain intensifiers used more by men | 第41-46页 |
| ·Potential reasons lying behind the differences | 第46-50页 |
| ·Physiological factors | 第46-48页 |
| ·Stereotype of social status and social roles | 第48页 |
| ·Psychological factors | 第48-49页 |
| ·Culture and gender language | 第49-50页 |
| ·A summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第51-55页 |
| ·Major findings of this research | 第51-52页 |
| ·Implications to linguistic research, language communication and learning | 第52-53页 |
| ·limitations and suggestions for further studies | 第53-55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-59页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第59-60页 |
| 攻读学位期间发表的学术论文目录 | 第60-61页 |
