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声明
Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Research abroad
2.1.1 Grammatical approach
2.1.2 Stylistic approach
2.1.3 Structure-functional approach
2.1.4 Functional approach
2.2 Research in China
2.2.1 Grammatical approach
2.2.2 Functional approach
2.3 Summary
Chapter Three What are Scare Quotes?
3.1 Quotation marks
3.2 Definition of scare quotes
3.3 Distinction of scare quotes from non-scare quotes
Chapter Four Evaluative Functions of Scare Quotes
4.1 The Appraisal Theory
4.2 The Engagement Theory
4.3Features of journalism
4.4 Evaluative functions
4.4.1 Acknowledgement
4.4.2 Distancing
4.5 A case study
4.5.1 Research questions
4.5.2 Data collection
4.5.3 Data analysis
Chapter Five The Inference of the Evaluative Functions
5.1 The process of inferring
5.2 Context
5.2.1 Context of situation
5.2.2 Intertextuality
5.2.3 Context of culture
Chapter Six Conclusion
References
Appendix
Publications