| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第12-17页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第17-25页 |
| ·Arguments | 第17-21页 |
| ·Motivations and significance of the Research | 第21-22页 |
| ·Structure of the Dissertation | 第22-25页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第25-57页 |
| ·Introduction | 第25-26页 |
| ·Historiography | 第26-38页 |
| ·Modern British historiography | 第26-27页 |
| ·Development of the Historical Method | 第27-29页 |
| ·Development of the Historical Thought | 第29-31页 |
| ·Development of the Historical Profession | 第31-33页 |
| ·Development of theGenre and Authorship and Theme | 第33-35页 |
| ·Impacts of Historiography on the Historical Discourse | 第35-38页 |
| ·Rhetoric | 第38-45页 |
| ·Rhetoric Study of the Historical Discourse | 第38-42页 |
| ·Discursive Features of the Modern Historical Discourse | 第42-45页 |
| ·Diachronic Study of the Prose Style and Stance | 第45-47页 |
| ·Systemic Functional Linguistics | 第47-57页 |
| ·Systemic Functional Linguistics and Ideology | 第47页 |
| ·Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Scientific Discourse | 第47-49页 |
| ·Systemic Functional Linguistic and the School History Discourse | 第49-57页 |
| CHAPTER THREE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK | 第57-79页 |
| ·Introduction | 第57页 |
| ·Scientific Effects through Linguistic Features | 第57-60页 |
| ·Concepts | 第60-75页 |
| ·Historical Discourse | 第60-61页 |
| ·Academic Discourse | 第61-63页 |
| ·Grammatical Metaphor | 第63-66页 |
| ·Unpacking of the Grammatical Metaphor | 第66-67页 |
| ·Functions of the Grammatical Metaphor | 第67-68页 |
| ·Verbal and Deverbal Nouns | 第68-70页 |
| ·Transitivity | 第70-71页 |
| ·Lexicogrammar of Causality | 第71-75页 |
| ·Expressions of Epistemic Modality and Persons | 第75-79页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR HOLINSHED AND BURY AND THEIR WORKS | 第79-84页 |
| ·Holinshed and the Historie of England,Ireland and Scotland | 第79-81页 |
| ·Bury and the History of the Later Roman Empire | 第81-84页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE DATA ANDMETHOD | 第84-88页 |
| ·Data Description | 第84-86页 |
| ·Method | 第86-88页 |
| CHAPTER SIX STUDY OF THE LINGUISTIC FEATURES FOR GENERALIZATION,ABSTRACTION AND TECHNICALITY | 第88-150页 |
| ·Introduction | 第88-89页 |
| ·Study of Linguistic Features for Generalization | 第89-99页 |
| ·Distribution of Specific and Generalized Referents of Persons | 第89-91页 |
| ·Specific and Generalized Referents of Persons as Participant | 第91-99页 |
| ·Study of Linguistic Features for Abstraction | 第99-142页 |
| ·Distribution of Technical and Institutional and Semiotic Terms | 第100-107页 |
| ·Technical and Institutional and Semiotic Terms as Participant | 第107-110页 |
| ·Distribution of Nominalizations from the Perspective of Topology | 第110-116页 |
| ·Distribution of Nominalizations from the Perspective of Meta-functions | 第116-121页 |
| ·Nominalizations as Participant | 第121-127页 |
| ·Distribution of Verbal and Deverbal Nouns | 第127-129页 |
| ·Distribution of Abstract Clause | 第129-133页 |
| ·Unpacking of Nominalizations and Nominal Groups | 第133-141页 |
| ·Unpacking of the Abstract Clause | 第141-142页 |
| ·Study of Linguistic Features for Technicality | 第142-147页 |
| ·Summary | 第147-150页 |
| CHAPTER SEVEN STUDY OF THE LEXICOGRAMMAR OF CAUSALITY | 第150-193页 |
| ·Introduction | 第150-151页 |
| ·Distribution of Lexicogrammar of Causality | 第151-190页 |
| ·Distribution of Paratactic Causal Conjunction | 第151-159页 |
| ·Distribution of Hypotactic Causal Conjunction | 第159-165页 |
| ·Distribution of Counterfactual Conditional Clause | 第165-167页 |
| ·Distribution of Causal Participant of External Causal Process | 第167-172页 |
| ·Distribution of Causal Participant of Internal Cansal Process | 第172-175页 |
| ·Distribution of External Causal Process | 第175-181页 |
| ·Distribution of Internal Causal Process | 第181-185页 |
| ·Distribution of Causal Circumstance | 第185-187页 |
| ·Distribution of Causal Circumstantial Relational Process | 第187-190页 |
| ·Summary | 第190-193页 |
| CHAPTER EIGHT STUDY OF EXPRESSIONS OF EPISTEMIC MODALITY AND PERSONS | 第193-228页 |
| ·Introduction | 第193-194页 |
| ·Distribution of Three Modal Verbs | 第194-200页 |
| ·Distribution of Appearance Verbs | 第200-203页 |
| ·Distribution of Modal Adjuncts | 第203-210页 |
| ·Distribution of Nominalized Modal Expressions | 第210-212页 |
| ·Distribution of Extra-posed Clause | 第212-219页 |
| ·Distribution of Research verbs | 第219-220页 |
| ·Distribution of Persons | 第220-226页 |
| ·Summary | 第226-228页 |
| CHAPTER NINE CONCLUSION | 第228-233页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第233-243页 |
