声明
Contents
Abstract
摘要
Introduction
Research background
Objectives of the study
Significance of the study
Organization of the thesis
Chapter One Literature Review
1.1 Studies on Appraisal Theory
1.1.1 Studies on Appraisal Theory abroad
1.1.2 Studies on Appraisal Theory at home
1.2 Studies on art criticism
Chapter Two Theoretical Framework
2.1 Systemic Functional Linguistics
2.2 Appraisal Theory
2.2.1 Attitude System
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Research questions
3.2 Research methods
3.3 Data collection
3.3.1 Corpus selection
3.3.2 Coding in corpus
3.4 Analytic procedures
Chapter Four Results and Discussions
4.1 Attitudinal resources
4.1.1 Description of attitudinal resources
4.1.2 Description of positive and negative resources
4.2 Analysis of attitudinal meaning
4.2.1 Attitudinal meaning of Affect
4.2.2 Attitudinal meaning of Judgment
4.2.3 Attitudinal meaning of Appreciation
4.3 Explicit and implicit ways
4.4 Summary on Attitude in art criticism
4.4.1 Writing feature of art criticism
4.4.2 Interpersonal relationship
4.4.3 Writer-reader interactions in art criticism
Conclusion
Main findings
Implications
Limitations of the thesis and suggestions for future study
References
Appendix
Acknowledgements