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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background to the study
1.2 The research objectives and significance
1.3 Methodology and data collection
1.4 Organization of this dissertation
Chapter 2 The previous studies of reporting
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Defining reporting
2.3 Approaches to reporting
2.3.1 The philosophical approach
2.3.2 The stylistic approach
2.3.3 The general linguistic approach
2.3.4 The pragmatic approach
2.3.5 The systemic-functional approach
2.3.6 Other researches concerning reporting
2.4 Advantages and drawbacks of the previous studies on reporting
2.5 The interrelation between reporting and perspective
2.5.1 Studies in perspective
2.5.2 Aspects of natural joint
2.6 Summary
Chapter 3 Theoretical considerations
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Systemic-functional grammar
3.2.1 Three metafunctions
3.2.2 Clause complex
3.2.3 Realization
3.2.4 Genre
3.3 Cognitive grammar
3.3.1 Perspective
3.3.2 Attention, vantage point, empathy, starting point and point of view
3.3.3 Brief comments on these notions
3.4 Motivations for the study of LRs in English dissertations
3.5 Language levels to be analyzed
3.5.1 Reporting verbs
3.5.2 Metadiscourse
3.5.3 Tense
3.5.4 Voice
3.5.5 That-clause and It-clause
3.6 Summary
Chapter 4 Generic structure potential of Literature Reviews
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Purposes and significance of LRs
4.2.1 Titles
4.2.2 Focuses and goals
4.3 Generic structure of LRs
4.4 Elements of LRs and relations between elements and perspectives
4.4.1 Element analysis
4.4.2 Citation: an important feature in Elements 2 and 3
4.4.3 Relations between elements and perspectives
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5 Reporting verbs in Literature Reviews
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Pervasiveness of reporting verbs in LRs
5.3 Categories of reporting verbs
5.4 Functional analysis of reporting verbs in LRs
5.4.1 Functions of Research verbs in reporting
5.4.2 Functions of Cognition verbs in reporting
5.4.3 Functions of Discourse verbs in reporting
5.5 Disciplinary variations in reporting verbs
5.5.1 Disciplinary preferences for perspective portraying
5.5.2 A case study: report and find
5.6 Tense of reporting verbs in LRs
5.6.1 Distributions of tenses of reporting verbs in the 100 LRs
5.6.2 Tense realizations in LRs
5.7 Voice of reporting verbs in LRs
5.7.1 Functions of the passives of reporting in LRs
5.7.2 Disciplinary variation of the passive voice of reporting verbs
5.7.3 A case study: the verb say
5.8 Summary
Chapter 6 Perspectival that-clause and metadiscourse in Literature Reviews
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Classification and significance of perspectival that-clause
6.2.1 Experiential function
6.2.2 Interpersonal function
6.2.3 Textual function
6.3 Distributions of perspectival that-clauses
6.4 Perspectival that-clauses in LRs
6.4.1 The entity commented on
6.4.2 Stance of the writer towards the entity commented on
6.4.3 Source of the comments
6.4.4 The perspectival expression
6.5 Perspectival metadiscourse in LRs
6.6 Functional analyses of person markers I and we
6.6.1 Person markers as a rhetorical means
6.6.2 Functional realizations of person markers I and we
6.6.3 A case study: the use of argue
6.7 Functional analyses of attitude markers I find, I believe, I think and I know
6.7.1 A way of foregrounding
6.7.2 A politeness interpretation
6.7.3 A discourse strategy
6.7.4 A way of projection and modality
6.7.5 A device of evaluation
6.8 About ‘as…’
6.9 Summary
Chapter 7 Conclusion
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Findings of the current study
7.3 Significance of the current study
7.4 Limitations and suggestions for further research
Appendix 1 Data sources
Appendix 2 Data Samples
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
