声明
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Research Purpose and Significance
1.3 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Studies on Stance
2.1.1 Definitions of Stance
2.1.2 Previous Studies on the Expression of Stance in Academic Writing
2.2 Studies on Nominal Stance Construction
2.2.1 Definition of Nominal Stance Construction
2.2.2 Previous Studies of Nominal Stance Construction in Academic Writing Home and Abroad
2.2.3 Summary
2.3 Theoretical Framework
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Compilation of Chinese and American MA Theses of Linguistics Corpus
3.3 Corpus Tools
3.3.1 The Software Text Editor V.5.0
3.3.2 The Software AntConc 3.5.7
3.3.3 The Software Chi-Square Calculator
3.4 Data Collection and Data Analysis
Chapter Four Results and Discussion
4.1 General Use of Nominal Stance Construction in the Corpus of Chinese and American Students’ MA Theses of Linguistics
4.1.1 Overall Distribution of Stance Nouns in Noun Complement Structure in AMTL and CMTL
4.1.2 Overall Distribution and Frequency of Clausal Structures in AMTL and CMTL
4.2 Functional Differences of Nominal Stance Construction in AMTL and CMTL
4.2.1 Frequency of Stance Nouns in AMTL and CMTL
4.2.2 Function of Nominal Stance Construction Headed by Entity Nouns in AMTL and CMTL
4.2.3 Function of Nominal Stance Construction Headed by Attribute Nouns in AMTL and CMTL
4.2.4 Function of Nominal Stance Construction Headed by Relation Nouns in AMTL and CMTL
4.3 Analysis of Top 20 Stance Nouns in AMTL and CMTL
4.3.1 Analysis of Overlapped Stance Nouns Among Top 20 in AMTL and CMTL
4.3.2 Analysis of Non-overlapped Stance Nouns Among Top 20 in AMTL and CMTL
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
5.1.1 Noun Complement Structures are Significantly Less Employed by Chinese Graduate Students than American Graduate Students
5.1.2 Similarities and Differences on the Use of Stance Nouns and Subsequent Clause Structures in AMTL and CMTL
5.1.3 Remarkable Differences on the Use of Pre-modifications to Stance Nouns in AMTL and CMTL
5.1.4 Features of Academic Writing Judging from the Top 20 Stance Nouns in AMTL and CMTL
5.2 Implications of the Study
5.3 Limitations and Suggestions
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APPENDICES
致谢
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