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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background and purpose of study
1.2 Organization of thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Defining metadiscourse in academic discourse
2.2 Classifications of English metadiscourse
2.2.1 Vande Kopple's and Crismore et al.'s classifications of English metadiscourse
2.2.2 Ken Hyland's classification of English metadiscourse
2.3 Classification adopted for this thesis
2.4 Revised schema of metadiscourse for book reviews
2.4.1 Two subcategories of evidentials
2.4.2 Two subcategories of attitude markers
2.5 Classification of Chinese metadiscourse
2.6 Empirical studies on metadiscourse in academic discourse
2.7 Previous studies on book reviews
Chapter Three Conceptualizing Metadiscourse in Book Reviews
3.1 Rhetoric of metadiscourse in book reviews
3.2 Pragmatics of metadiscourse in book reviews
3.3 Generic aspects of metadiscourse in book reviews
Chapter Four Research Method
4.1 Linguistic realizations of metadiscoursai devices in book reviews
4.1.1 A schema for English metadiscourse
4.1.2 A schema for Chinese metadiscourse
4.2 Data source and data collection
4.3 Data analysis
4.4 Text analysis
Chapter Five Contrastive Analysis and Discussion
5.1 Similarities
5.1.1 Interactive metadiscourse
5.1.2 Interactional metadiscourse
5.2 Differences
5.3 Summary
Chapter Six Conclusion
6.1 Major findings
6.2 Implications
6.3 Limitations and suggestions
References
Appendix 1 Sources of English Data
Appendix 2 Sources of Chinese Data