序 前言 Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background to the Study 1.2 A Brief Survey of Interpersonal Meaning 1.3 Research Design 1.4 Organization of the Book Chapter 2 Towards a Functional Model of Interpersonal Meaning 2.1 Introduction 2.2 An Overview of Interpersonal Models 2.3 A Three-Component Model of Interpersonal Meaning 2.4 Summary Chapter 3 Modeling Interpersonal Features of Academic Discourse 3.1 Introduction 3.2 What Is Academic Discourse? 3.3 Different Approaches to Academic Discourse 3.4 A Description of Interpersonal Features of Academic Discourse 3.5 Four Linguistic Devices to be Analyzed 3.6 Summary Chapter 4 Hedging 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Notion of Modality 4.3 The Concept of Hedging 4.4 Weighing the Claims in the Truth-Seeking Talk 4.5 Mitigating Claims by Limiting Personal Commitment 4.6 Gaining Reader Ratification for Claims 4.7 Summary Chapter 5 Person 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Notion of Person 5.3 The Classifications and Functions of Varied We in RAs 5.4 The Epistemic Meanings of I in RAs 5.5 Uses of You Soliciting Reader Solidarity in RAs 5.6 Tackling a Research Article from the Data 5.7 The I/We Perspective of Knowledge Presentation in RAs 5.8 Summary Chapter 6 Evaluative Lexis 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Approaches to the Definition of Evaluation 6.3 Evaluation from a Linguistic Perspective 6.4 Evaluation in RAs: Explicit Attitude versus Objectivity 6.5 Dominant Choices in Expressing Explicit Attitude in RAs 6.6 Dominant Choices in Grading Explicit Attitude in RAs 6.7 Summary Chapter 7 Citation 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Notion of Reported Speech 7.3 The Conception of Citation in Evaluation 7.4 The Classifications of Reporting Verbs 7.5 Reporting Verbs Signaling Evaluation in RAs 7.6 Evaluative Functions of Reporting Verbs in RAs 7.7 The Complexity of Evaluation in the Citations of RAs 7.8 Summary Chapter 8 Conclusions 8.1 A Summarizing Overview 8.2 Some Pedagogical Implications 8.3 Suggestions for Further Studies Appendix I The Corpus of Applied Linguistics Appendix II The Corpus of Literary Criticism Bibliography List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations 后记