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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chapter 1Introduction
1.1 Research motivations
1.2 Research objectives
1.3 Research methodology
1.4 The organization of this paper
Chpter2 Literature Review
2.1 Theoretical framework
2.1.1 Stance nouns
2.1.2 The social context in English medical RAs
2.1.3 The application of the face theory and politeness theory in scientific articles
2.1.4 Genre analysis
2.2 Previous studies on stance nouns
2.3 The focus of the present paper
Chpter3 Research Design
3.1 Research questions
3.2 Research Instruments
3.2.1 Corpora employed
3.2.2 Software used
3.3 Research procedure
3.3.1 Processing corpora
3.3.2 Retrieving the labels in the patterns
3.3.3 The identification of the instances with positive evaluation and negative evaluation
3.3.4 The identification of meta-linguistic nouns in both corpora
Chapter4 Research Results and Discussions
4.1 Advance labels
4.1.1 Contrast the total occurrences of stance nouns in noun that pattern in CLRA and CMRA
4.1.2 Detailed analysis of the most frequently used labels in two corpora
4.1.3 Overall analysis of information in the sentence containing the label
4.1.4 Range
4.2 Retrospective labels
4.2.1 Contrast the pattern this/This Noun in two corpora
4.2.2 Contrast the pattern these/These Noun
4.3 The evaluation within the label
4.3.1 Constructing stance through the choice of noun
4.3.2 Disciplinary variation in the noun group
4.4 The incorporation of stance as given information or new information
4.4.1 The incorporation of stance within the label as given information/new information
4.4.2 The incorporation of stance after the label as new information
4.5 A strategy of negative politeness
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1 Major findings and contributions of the research
5.2 Implications
5.3 Limitations of the present study
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