| 英文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第4-7页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第7-16页 |
| 1．1 Preliminary | 第7-8页 |
| 1．2 Aim of the Study | 第8-9页 |
| 1．3 Methods Adopted in the Study | 第9-15页 |
| 1．3．1 Collection of the Data | 第10-12页 |
| 1．3．2 Selection of the Linguistic Features | 第12-15页 |
| 1．4 Layout of the Paper | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter 2 A General View on E-mail and Mailing Lists | 第16-24页 |
| 2．1 E-mail | 第16页 |
| 2．2 Mailing Lists | 第16-22页 |
| 2．2．1 How Mailing Lists Function | 第17-18页 |
| 2．2．2 Typology | 第18页 |
| 2．2．3 Accessibility | 第18-19页 |
| 2．2．4 Moderation | 第19-20页 |
| 2．2．5 Distribution | 第20-22页 |
| 2．2．6 Orientation | 第22页 |
| 2．3 Posting to a Mailing List | 第22-23页 |
| 2．4 The Types of Messages Posting to a Mailing List | 第23-24页 |
| Chapter 3 Overview of Stylistic Features of Spoken and Written languages | 第24-36页 |
| 3．1 Stylistic Theories | 第24-30页 |
| 3．1．1 The Related Terms | 第24-25页 |
| 3．1．2 The Brief History of Stylistics | 第25-28页 |
| 3．1．3 The Goals, Components and Procedures of Stylistic Inquiry | 第28-30页 |
| 3．2 The Stylistic Features of Spoken and Written Languages | 第30-36页 |
| 3．2．1 Overview of Spoken and Written Languages | 第30-31页 |
| 3．2．2 Previous Quantitative Studies | 第31-32页 |
| 3．2．3 Non-quantitative approaches | 第32-33页 |
| 3．2．4 Spoken and Written Language Scale | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter 4 Stylistic Analysis of E-mail | 第36-81页 |
| 4．1 the Textual Aspects of E-mail | 第37-68页 |
| 4．1．1 Type/Token Ratios of Vocabulary Use | 第37-40页 |
| 4．1．2 The Lexical Density of E-mail | 第40-45页 |
| 4．1．3 Word Length Analyses across the Three Corpora | 第45-51页 |
| 4．1．4 Nominalizations in E-mail | 第51-57页 |
| 4．1．5 Coordination and Subordination in E-mail | 第57-64页 |
| 4．1．6 Conjuncts in E-mail | 第64-66页 |
| 4．1．7 Passive Structures in E-mail | 第66-68页 |
| 4．2 The Interpersonal Aspects of E-mail | 第68-76页 |
| 4．2．1 Personal reference | 第68页 |
| 4．2．2 First person pronouns in E-mail | 第68-70页 |
| 4．2．3 Second person pronouns in E-mail | 第70-71页 |
| 4．2．4 Third person personal pronouns in E-mail | 第71-73页 |
| 4．2．5 Overall investigation of personal pronouns in the corpora | 第73-76页 |
| 4．3 The Ideational Aspects of E-mail | 第76-81页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusions and Implications | 第81-84页 |
| 5．1 Conclusions Obtained by the Statistical Analysis and Discussion | 第81-82页 |
| 5．2 Suggestions for Instructional Guidance | 第82页 |
| 5．3 Further Research | 第82-84页 |
| Published Paper | 第84-85页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第85-86页 |
| References | 第86-88页 |
| Appendixes | 第88-105页 |
