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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 General Introduction
1.2 Purpose and Significance of the Study
1.3 Research Questions
1.4 Layout of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 An Overview of Appraisal Theory
2.2 Three Subsystems of Appraisal Theory
2.2.1 Attitude
2.2.2 Engagement
2.2.3 Graduation
2.3 Application of Appraisal Theory in Discourse Analysis
2.4 An Overview of Business Reviews
2.4.1 Structure of Business Reviews
2.4.2 Significance of Business Reviews
Chapter 3 Research Methodology
3.1 Research Subjects
3.2 Data Collection
3.3 Instrument: AntConc
3.4 Methods
Chapter 4 Results and Discussions
4.1 Data Analysis of Attitude Words in Harvard Business Review texts
4.1.1 Distributions and Features of Affect Values
4.1.2 Distributions and Features of Judgement Values
4.1.3 Distribution and Features of Appreciation Values
4.1.4 Distributions of Different Attitude Words in Each Part
4.2 Data Analysis of Engagement Words in Harvard Business Review texts
4.2.1 Distributions of Dialogic Contraction and Dialogic Expansion
4.2.2 Distributions of Intra-vocalization and Extra-vocalization
4.2.3 Distributions of Different Engagement Words in Each Part
4.3 Data Analysis of Graduation Words in Harvard Business Review texts
4.3.1 Distributions of Graduation Words of the Whole Texts
4.3.2 Distributions of Different Graduation Words in Each Part
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Implications of the Study
5.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study
References
Acknowledgements
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