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Chapter 1 Introduction
1£®1 Research background
1£®2 Objectives of this study
1£®3 Significance of this study
1£®4 Organization of the book

Chapter 2 Literature Review
2£®1 Analytical approaches to general nounsi
2£®1£®1 The textual cohesion approach
2£®1£®2 The clause relational approach
2£®1£®3 The systemic functional analysis
2£®1£®4 The cognitive approach
2£®1£®5 The applied linguistics analysis
2£®1£®6 The Sinclairian corpus linguistic approach
2£®2 The local grammar approach
2£®2£®1 A form-oriented local grammar
2£®2£®2 A function-oriented local grammar
2£®3 Methods of identifying general nouns
2£®3£®1 The manual identification method
2£®3£®2 The pattern-based method
2£®3£®3 The frequency-based method
2£®4 General nouns in academic writing
2£®4£®1 The stance-marking function of general nouns in academic writing
2£®4£®2 The cohesive function of general nouns in academic writing
2£®4£®3 Limitations of previous studies
2£®5 Summary

Chapter 3 Research Design and Methodology
3£®1 Analytical framework
3£®1£®1 Sinclairian extended units of meaning
3£®1£®2 The local textual functions
3£®1£®3 The local grammar of evaluation
3£®2 Working definition
3£®3 Corpus to be used
3£®4 Corpus tools and research procedures
3£®5 Summary

Chapter 4 Overall Data of General Nouns
4£®1 Overall distribution of general nouns
4£®1£®1 Overall frequencies of general nouns
4£®1£®2 The dispersion of general nouns
4£®2 Semantic groups of general nouns
4£®3 Distribution of general nouns across disciplines
4£®3£®1 Distribution of general nouns in the STUDY group across disciplines
4£®3£®2 Distribution of general nouns in the METHOD group across disciplines
4£®3£®3 Distribution of general noum in the Others group across disciplines
4£®4 Summary

Chapter 5 Textual Functions Associated with General Nouns
5£®1 Notions of textual functions
5£®2 Overall data of co-selection patterns and textual functions
5£®3 Textual functions of "GN + V-reportingGN + BE + V-reporting"
5£®3£®1 Reviewing previous studies
5£®3£®2 Presenting results
5£®4 Textual functions of "GN + £¨BE + £© V-research £¨X + £© V-research + GN"
5£®4£®1 Reviewing previous studies
5£®4£®2 Outlining features of the present study
5£®4£®3 Dealing with results
5£®4£®4 Proposing methods
5£®4£®5 Characterizing methods
5£®4£®6 Dealing with effects
5£®4£®7 Describing circumstantial factors
5£®5 Textual functions of "PREP£® + GN"
5£®5£®1 Outlining features of the present study
5£®5£®2 Anchoring place£¬ time and circumstantial factors
5£®5£®3 Evidential and framing marking
5£®6 Other textual functions
5£®6£®1 Recommending future studies
5£®6£®2 Comparing results
5£®6£®3 Indicating effectsvalues
5£®7 Discussion
5£®7£®1 Patterning features of general nouns for textual functions
5£®7£®2 Textual functions as discourse moves
5£®7£®3 The discourse strategies and textual functions
5£®7£®4 The localness of textual functions
5£®7£®5 Features of patterns for textual functions in Chinese scholars' research articles
5£®8 Summary

Chapter 6 Evaluative Functions Associated with General Nouns
6£®1 Notions of evaluative functions
6£®2 The local grammar approach to evaluative functions associated with general nouns
6£®3 General nouns as the evaluation carrier
6£®3£®1 METHOD nouns as the evaluation carrier
6£®3£®2 factor as the evaluation carrier
6£®4 General nouns as the evaluated entity
6£®4£®1 RESULT nouns as the evaluated entity
6£®4£®2 METHOD nouns as the evaluated entity
6£®4£®3 EFFECT nouns as the evaluated entity
6£®5 General nouns as the evaluative category
6£®6 Evaluative functions and textual patterns
6£®6£®1 Clause relational approach and textual patterns
6£®6£®2 Distribution of textual patterns
6£®6£®3 General nouns in the Situation-Evaluation-Basis pattern
6£®6£®4 General nouns in the General-Particular pattern
6£®6£®5 General nouns in the Problem-Solution pattern
6£®7 Discussion
6£®7£®1 Multiple functional roles in evaluation
6£®7£®2 Patterning features of general nouns for evaluative functions
6£®7£®3 Local semantic prosodies of general nouns
6£®7£®4 Double roles of general nouns
6£®8 Summary

Chapter 7 Conclusions and Implications
7£®1 Major findings
7£®2 Implications
7£®3 Limitations of the present study

Appendices
1£® Co-selection patterns of general nouns
2£® 50 concordances for presenting results
3£® 50 concordances for evidential and framing marking functions
4£® 50 concordances for specifying places
5£® Concordances in the Situation-Evaluation pattern
6£® Concordances in the General-Particular pattern
7£® Concordances in the Problem-Solution pattern
References
Index