Chapter 1 Introduction1.1 Rationale1.1.1 Appraisal System and appraisal epithets1.1.2 The genre of political discourse1.1.3 Corpus-based discourse analysis1.2 Objectives and Research Questions1.3 Significance of This Study1.4 Organisation of the ThesisChapter 2 Research Background2.1 The Overview of CTS2.1.1 CTS in general2.1.2 CTS in the Chinese context2.1.2.1 Translation-oriented corpus compilation and processing2.1.2.2 TU studies in the Chinese...