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Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 The title as a genre in academic prose
1.3 The role of English in the research genre
1.4 Literature review
1.5 Overview of the thesis
Chapter 2 Corpus Selection
Chapter 3 Structural Perspective
3.1 Methodology
3.2 Results
3.2.1 Compound titles
3.2.2 NP PP
3.2.3 VP
3.2.4 NP(and NP)
3.2.5 Full-sentence titles
3.2.6 PP
3.2.7 Classification of titles according to content
Chapter 4 Diachronic Perspective
4.1 Methodology
4.2 Results
4.2.1 Diachronic changes of different categories from a structural perspective
4.2.2 Diachronic changes of different categories
4.2.3 Title length
4.2.4 Compound titles
4.2.5 NP PP titles
4.2.6 VP titles
4.2.7 NP(and NP)
4.2.8 Full-sentence titles
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1 Main findings
5.2 Implications of the research
5.3 Limitations and suggestions
References