CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Background of the study
1.2.1 The first person pronouns and the pragmatic functions of the FPPs in academic writing
1.2.2 Semantic categorisation of verbs and the phra-ses of‘I’，‘We’and their verb collocates in this study
1.2.3 Computer Learner Corpora
1.3 Aims and research questions
1.4 Corpus and methodology
1.5 An outline of the book
CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Learner corpora and phrases
2.2.1 Learner corpora
2.2.1.1 Corpus linguistics
2.2.1.2 Computer Learner Corpora
2.2.2 Phrases
2.3 FPPs and verbs in academic writing
2.3.1 First person pronouns
2.3.1.1 Self-representation in academic text
2.3.1.2 Pragmatic functions of‘I’and‘We’in academic writing
2.3.1.3 Writer identity
2.3.2 Verbs and verb category in academic text
2.4 The disciplinary difference and level difference of academic text
2.4.1 Disciplinary difference
2.4.2 Academic level difference
2.5 The phraseology and the FPPs in EFL academic writing
2.6 Conclusion
CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY：CORPUS COMPILATION AND THE EXTRACTION OF‘I’，‘WE’AND THE VERBS
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Corpus compilation
3.2.1 Genre and representativeness of the corpus
3.2.2 The English-language dissertations of Business and Management and English Literature in Chinese higher education
3.2.3 Data collection
3.2.4 Data cleaning
3.2.5 Corpus construction and components
3.3 The extraction of‘I’and‘We
3.3.1 The method
3.3.2 Quantitative results of the FPPs，‘I’and‘We
3.4 The extraction of the verbs that collocate with‘I’and‘We
3.4.1 The method
3.4.2 Quantitative results of the verbs that collocate with the FPPs
3.5 Conclusion
CHAPTER 4 METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY：CLASSI-FICATION OF THE VERBS COLLOCATING WITH‘I’AND‘WE
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Verbs collocating with‘I’and‘We
4.2.1 SEE，FIND and SAY
4.2.2 KNOW，think and believe
4.2.3 DISCUSS and MENTION
4.2.4 USE and ANALYSE
4.2.5 LEARN and READ
4.3 Verbs classification in the CEAL-CAWE
4.3.1 The Textual organising verbs
4.3.2 Research report verbs
4.3.3 Research interpretation verbs
4.3.4 Knowledge community construing verb
4.3.5 The verbs that might be grouped into more than one category
4.4 Sample analysis
4.5 Conclusion
CHAPTER 5 PHRASES OF‘I’，‘WE’AND THEIR VERB COLLOCATES ACROSS THE TWO DISCIPLINES
5.1 Introduction
5.2 A quantitative overview of the verbs collocating with‘I’and‘We’between BM and EL
5.2.1 Quantitative results of‘I’and‘We
5.2.2 Quantitative results of the verb categories
5.3 Verbs collocating with‘I’and‘We’in the Business and management and the English Literature disciplines
5.3.1 Textual organising verbs
5.3.2 Knowledge community construing verb
5.3.3 Research report verbs
5.3.3.1 Epistemic Verbs
5.3.3.2 Research Conduct verbs
5.3.4 Research interpretation verbs
5.4 Discussion
5.5 Conclusion
CHAPTER 6 PHRASES OF‘I’，‘WE’AND THEIR VERB COLLOCATES ACROSS THE TWO ACADEMIC LEVELS
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Quantitative overview of the verbs collocating with ‘I’and‘We’across the undergraduate and post-graduate levels
6.2.1 Quantitative results of‘I’and‘We
6.2.2 Quantitative results of the verb categories
6.3 Verbs collocating with‘I’and‘We’across the un-dergraduate and the postgraduate levels
6.3.1 Textual organising verbs
6.3.2 The knowledge community construing verb KNOW
6.3.3 Research report verbs
6.3.4 Research interpretation verbs
6.4 Discussion and conclusion
CHAPTER 7 DISCUSSION
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Discourse functions of the phrases of‘I’，‘We’and their verb collocates
7.2.1 Th
