| Abstract | 第1-17页 |
| 摘要 | 第17-22页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第22-31页 |
| ·Preliminaries | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Rationale of Attitudinal Studies on Packing Nouns | 第24-27页 |
| ·The Objectives of the Present Study | 第27-29页 |
| ·The Organization of this Dissertation | 第29-30页 |
| Notes | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review: Previous Studies Relevant to Packing Nouns | 第31-58页 |
| ·Introduction | 第31-32页 |
| ·Traditional-grammatical Studies of Abstract Nouns | 第32-37页 |
| ·The Denotational Semantic Studies of Abstract Nouns | 第33-35页 |
| ·The Dichotomist Studies of Abstract Nouns | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Trichotomist Studies of Abstract Nouns | 第36-37页 |
| ·Philosophical Studies of Abstract Nouns | 第37-41页 |
| ·The Controversy of the Existence of Abstract Entities | 第37-38页 |
| ·The "Container" Image of Abstract Nouns | 第38-41页 |
| ·Systemic Functional Study of Abstract Nouns | 第41-51页 |
| ·Structurally-based Studies of Abstract Nouns | 第41-46页 |
| ·Lexically-based Studies of Abstract Nouns | 第46-51页 |
| ·Corpus-based Studies of Abstract Nouns | 第51-55页 |
| ·Studies of the Linguistic Environment of Abstract Nouns | 第51-53页 |
| ·Studies Mentioning the Evaluative Function of Packing Nouns in Passing | 第53-55页 |
| ·Other Studies | 第55-56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56-57页 |
| Notes | 第57-58页 |
| Chapter 3 Packing Nouns as Attitudinal Resources in Discourse | 第58-94页 |
| ·Introduction | 第58页 |
| ·Packing Nouns Revisited | 第58-69页 |
| ·The Cognitive Characteristics of Packing Nouns | 第58-63页 |
| ·The Semantic Characteristics of Packing Nouns | 第63-69页 |
| ·The Interpersonal Information of Packing Nouns | 第69-75页 |
| ·Packing Nouns and Information Loss in Nominalization | 第69-71页 |
| ·The Attitudinal Information of Packing Nouns | 第71-74页 |
| ·Attitudinal and Non-attitudinal Packing Nouns | 第74-75页 |
| ·Strategies of Attitude Realization in Discourse | 第75-78页 |
| ·Attitude Inscription in Discourse | 第75-76页 |
| ·Attitude Invocation in Discourse | 第76页 |
| ·The Interaction of Inscription and Invocation | 第76-78页 |
| ·Attitudinal Packing Nouns and Attitude Inscription | 第78-79页 |
| ·Non-attitudinal Packing Nouns and Attitude Invocation in Discourse | 第79-84页 |
| ·The Lexico-Grammatical Patterns for Packing Nouns to Realize Attitude in Discourse | 第84-90页 |
| ·The Relation Between Packing Nouns and the Packed Content:From Referential Identity to Cognitive Identity | 第84-87页 |
| ·The Lexico-Grammatical Patterns Encoding the Cognitive Identity Between Packing Nouns and the Packed Content | 第87-90页 |
| ·Packing Nouns Redefined in the Framework of Attitude Realization | 第90-91页 |
| ·Summary | 第91-92页 |
| Notes | 第92-94页 |
| Chapter 4 Research Design | 第94-112页 |
| ·Introduction | 第94-95页 |
| ·Identifying the Optimally Representative Packing Nouns | 第95-102页 |
| ·The Corpus, the Concordance Tool and the Queries | 第95-96页 |
| ·Data Processing | 第96-100页 |
| ·A Survey of the Results of the Corpus Inquiry | 第100-102页 |
| ·Analyzing the Attitude of Packing Nouns | 第102-110页 |
| ·The Approach: Corpus-based and Corpus-driven | 第102-104页 |
| ·The Frequency Assumption | 第104页 |
| ·From Semantic Preference to Discourse Prosody | 第104-106页 |
| ·Extending and Broadening the Concordance Lines | 第106-108页 |
| ·The Two Frequent Labels in the Attitudinal Analysis of Packing Nouns | 第108-110页 |
| ·Summary | 第110页 |
| Notes | 第110-112页 |
| Chapter 5 Attitudinal Packing Nouns as Resources for Attitude Inscription | 第112-126页 |
| ·Introduction | 第112-113页 |
| ·"Problem" Nouns as the Resources for Negative Appreciation | 第113-119页 |
| ·Appreciation Inscription by "Problem" Nouns | 第114-116页 |
| ·The Negativity of the Appreciation Inscribed by "Problem" Nouns | 第116-119页 |
| ·"Advantage" Nouns as the Resources for Positive Appreciation | 第119-122页 |
| ·Appreciation Inscription by "Advantage" Packing Nouns | 第119-120页 |
| ·The Positivity of the Appreciation Inscribed by "Advantage" Nouns | 第120-122页 |
| ·"Anxiety" Nouns as the Resources for Negative Affect | 第122-124页 |
| ·Affect Inscription by "Anxiety" Nouns | 第122-124页 |
| ·The Negativity of the Affect Inscribed by "Anxiety" Nouns | 第124页 |
| ·Summary | 第124-125页 |
| Notes | 第125-126页 |
| Chapter 6 Non-attitudinal Packing Nouns as Resources for Attitude Invocation | 第126-196页 |
| ·Introduction | 第126-128页 |
| ·Factual Nouns as Resources for Attitude Invocation | 第128-155页 |
| ·General Factual Nouns | 第128-140页 |
| ·Causal Nouns | 第140-147页 |
| ·Evidentive Nouns | 第147-149页 |
| ·Comparative Nouns | 第149-151页 |
| ·Partitive Nouns | 第151-153页 |
| ·Normative Nouns | 第153-155页 |
| ·Meta-linguistic Nouns | 第155-162页 |
| ·Meta-linguistic Nouns Further Grouped | 第155-157页 |
| ·Propositional Nouns | 第157-159页 |
| ·Illocutionary Nouns | 第159-162页 |
| ·Mental Nouns | 第162-176页 |
| ·Mental Nouns Further-grouped | 第163-164页 |
| ·Creditive Nouns | 第164-168页 |
| ·Volitional Nouns | 第168-176页 |
| ·Modal Nouns | 第176-186页 |
| ·Modal Nouns Further Classified | 第176-177页 |
| ·Modalization Nouns | 第177-183页 |
| ·Modulation Nouns | 第183-186页 |
| ·Eventive Nouns | 第186-188页 |
| ·Circumstantive Nouns | 第188-191页 |
| ·Manner Nouns | 第189-190页 |
| ·Time Nouns | 第190-191页 |
| ·Summary | 第191-194页 |
| Notes | 第194-196页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion and Points for Further Research | 第196-201页 |
| ·Summaries of General and Specific Findings | 第196-199页 |
| ·Points for Further Research | 第199-201页 |
| References | 第201-215页 |
| Appendices | 第215-227页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第227-228页 |
| 攻读博士学位期间发表的论文及科研成果 | 第228-229页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第229页 |
