声明
Acknowledgements
摘要
Abstract
CONTENTS
1 Introduction
1.1 Research background
1.2 Research motivation and objective
1.3 Organization of the thesis
2 Literature Review
2.1 Academic writing and abstracts
2.1.1 Introduction to academic writing
2.1.2 Introduction to academic abstracts
2.1.3 Previous study on academic abstracts
2.2 Self-mention in academic writing
2.2.1 First person pronouns
2.2.2 Self-mention as third person
2.3 Previous studies on writer identity in academic writing
2.4 Previous studies on first person pronoun in academic writing
2.4.1 Discourse functions of first person pronouns
2.4.2 Semantic reference of first person pronouns
3 Corpus and Methodology
3.1 Research questions
3.2 Corpus Construction
3.2.1 Discipline selection
3.2.2 Data collection
3.2.3 Corpus building
3.3 Methods of analysis
3.3.1 Quantitative analysis
3.3.2 Qualitative analysis
4 Results and Discussion
4.1 Results of the quantitative analysis
4.1.1 Frequency of self-mention words in native speakers’academic writings
4.1.2 Frequency of self-mention words in Chinese students’academic writings
4.2 Discussion of the qualitative analysis
4.2.1 Functional analysis of native speakers’academic writings
4.2.2 Functional analysis of Chinese students’academic writings
4.3 Contrastive analysis of frequency and functions of self mention
4.3.1 Similarities of the two corpora
4.3.2 Differences of the two corpora
4.3.3 Possible reasons behind the differences and the similarities
5 Conclusion
5.1 Major findings
5.2 Implications
5.3 Limitations of this research
5.4 Suggestions for future research
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