| Acknowledgements | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-12页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-17页 |
| ·Background of the study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature review | 第17-26页 |
| ·Previous studies on evaluation | 第17-22页 |
| ·Halliday's concept on evaluation | 第17-19页 |
| ·Different approaches to evaluation | 第19-21页 |
| ·Previous studies on appraisal theory | 第21-22页 |
| ·Review of linguistic book reviews | 第22-24页 |
| ·Definition of book reviews | 第22-23页 |
| ·Importance of linguistic book review | 第23页 |
| ·Previous studies on book reviews | 第23-24页 |
| ·Comments | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical preliminaries | 第26-34页 |
| ·Systemic concept of interpersonal meaning | 第26-27页 |
| ·Appraisal theory | 第27-33页 |
| ·"Write It Right" project | 第27页 |
| ·Subsystems of appraisal system | 第27-33页 |
| ·Attitude | 第28-29页 |
| ·Engagement | 第29-32页 |
| ·Graduation | 第32-33页 |
| ·The framework for this study | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter Four Research questions and methodology | 第34-37页 |
| ·Research questions | 第34页 |
| ·Corpus-based resources | 第34-35页 |
| ·Procedures | 第35-36页 |
| ·Labeling of appraisal resources:a sample analysis | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Five Discussion and results | 第37-61页 |
| ·Appraisal in texts:a noticeable distribution | 第37-38页 |
| ·Attitude | 第38-45页 |
| ·Realization of attitude in book reviews | 第38-42页 |
| ·Affect | 第39页 |
| ·Judgment | 第39-40页 |
| ·Appreciation | 第40-41页 |
| ·Positive attitude vs.negative attitude | 第41页 |
| ·Explicit attitude vs.implicit attitude | 第41-42页 |
| ·Distribution of attitude in book reviews | 第42-45页 |
| ·An overview of the distribution | 第42-43页 |
| ·Distribution of positive and negative attitude,explicit and implicit attitude | 第43-45页 |
| ·Engagement | 第45-52页 |
| ·Realization of engagement in book reviews | 第45-50页 |
| ·Monogloss and heterogloss | 第46-47页 |
| ·Dialogic contraction | 第47页 |
| ·Dialogic expansion | 第47-48页 |
| ·Modality,hedging and projection | 第48-50页 |
| ·Distribution of engagement in book reviews | 第50-52页 |
| ·Graduation | 第52-55页 |
| ·Realization of graduation in book reviews | 第52-54页 |
| ·Force | 第52-53页 |
| ·Focus | 第53页 |
| ·High-value lexica | 第53-54页 |
| ·Distribution of graduation in book reviews | 第54-55页 |
| ·Summary | 第55-57页 |
| ·Causes of the differences | 第57-61页 |
| ·Politeness strategy | 第58页 |
| ·Cultural typology | 第58-59页 |
| ·Academic tradition | 第59-60页 |
| ·Hofstede's value dimensions | 第60页 |
| ·Summary | 第60-61页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusions | 第61-65页 |
| ·Findings of the study | 第61-63页 |
| ·Implications of the present study | 第63页 |
| ·Limitations of the study and suggestions for further study | 第63-65页 |
| References | 第65-69页 |
| Appendix A Sources of EBRs | 第69-70页 |
| Appendix B Sources of EBRs | 第70页 |
