●Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background of this study
1.2 Objectives of this study
I.3 Significance of this study
1.4 Terminological issues
1.5 Organization of this thesis
Chapter 2 Theoretical Background
2.1 Disentangling the notions of phrasedlogy
2.2 Major theoretical framework
2.3 Previous studies of phraseology
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 Research Design and Methodology
3.1 Analytical framework
3.2 Corpus to be used
3.3 Instruments, tools, work procedures
3.4 Summary
Chapter 4 A New Computing Method for Extracting Contiguous PSs
4.1 Previous methods for extracting PSs
4.2 Features of current statisticsbased measures
4.3 Procedures for data extraction
4.4 Pseudobigram transformation
4.5 A new algorithm for normalization: probabilityweighted average
4.6 Evaluation
4.7 Summary
Chapter 5 Overall Frequency Distributions of PSs
5.1 Distributions of PSs of various lengths
5.2 Distributions of PSs of different grammatical types
5.3 Distributions of PSs of primary discourse functions
5.4 Summary
Chapter 6 Experiential PSs
6.1 Notions of experiential PSs
6.2 Semantic categories of experiential PSs
6.3 Experiential PSs for specifying processes and actions
6.4 Experiential PSs for identifying entities, notions and activities
6.5 Experiential PSs for specifying attributes
6.6 Experiential PSs for specifying time and space
6.7 Vagueness expressions
6.8 Discussion and summary
Chapter 7 Stance PSs
7.1 Notions of stance PSs
7.2 Lexicogrammatical marking of stance
7.3 Structural categories of stance PSs
7.4 Adverbial stance PSs
7.5 Overt subject stance PSs
7.6 Itextraposed stance PSs
7.7 Null subject stance PSs
7.8 Discussion and summary
Chapter 8 Organizational PSs
8.1 Notions of organizational PSs
8.2 Functional categories of organizational PSs
8.3 Discourse acts PSs
8.4 Metadiscourse PSs
8.5 General logical signals
8.6 Discussion and summary
Chapter 9 Conclusions and Implications
9.1 Summary of major findings
9.2 Implications
9.3 Limitations of this study
References
Appendices