List of Figures
Figure 1 The relation of the three components of genre knowledge····················4
Figure 2 The relation between intercultural and other types of genre knowledge····8
Figure 3 Number of publications in journals and proceedings by year················14
Figure 4 Number of studies on each section in percentage·····························14
Figure 5 Number of studies by the factors of variation··································18
Figure 6 The boxplot of the length of opening sections in the three sub-corpora····78
Figure 7 Boxplots of the standardized length of Move 2 in the three sub-corpora··········································································83
Figure 8 Boxplots of the standardized length of Move 3 in the three sub-corpora··········································································84
Figure 9 Boxplots of the standardized length of Move 4 in the three sub-corpora··········································································84
Figure 10 Boxplots of the standardized length of Metatexts in the three sub-corpora········································································85
Figure 11 The distribution of moves in individual texts(China,New Zealand &America)·····························································111
Figure 12 A comparison of CHCH,CHNZ and OTHNZ·····························115
Figure 13 A comparison of CHCH,CHUS and OTHUS······························116
Figure 14 Combined groups plot·························································118
Figure 15 The boxplot of the distribution of Move 3 over time in the China Applied Linguistics community··············································121
Figure 16 The boxplot of the distribution of Move 1 &2a over time in the America Applied Linguistics community···································122
Figure 17 Local community·······························································133