| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·Research Background | 第10-11页 |
| ·Research Purpose and Significance | 第11-12页 |
| ·Methodology ofthe Research | 第12-13页 |
| ·Organization ofthe Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-25页 |
| ·Definition and Boundary of Visual Poetry | 第15-18页 |
| ·The Characteristics of Visual poetry | 第18-22页 |
| ·Visual Beauty of Form Design | 第18-19页 |
| ·Poetic Beauty of Contents | 第19-22页 |
| ·Research on Visual Poetry | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第25-37页 |
| ·Definition of Multimodality and Multimodal Discourse | 第25-26页 |
| ·Identification of Multimodal Discourse | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Occurrence of Sensory Modality | 第27页 |
| ·The Differences among Mode, Medium and Modality | 第27-28页 |
| ·Criterion of Identifying Multimodal Discourse | 第28页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Multimodal Discourse Analysis | 第28-30页 |
| ·Previous Studies on MDA from Abroad | 第28-29页 |
| ·Previous Studies on MDA in China | 第29-30页 |
| ·Theoretical Foundation of Multimodal Discourse Analysis | 第30-37页 |
| ·Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar | 第30-32页 |
| ·The Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Kress &Van Leeuwen | 第32-37页 |
| ·The Representational Meaning | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Interactive Meaning | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Compositional Meaning | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter Four Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Visual Poetry | 第37-62页 |
| ·Modal Types | 第37-42页 |
| ·Verbal Modality | 第37-41页 |
| ·Visual Modality | 第41-42页 |
| ·The Representational Meaning of Visual Poetry | 第42-48页 |
| ·The Narrative Representation | 第42-46页 |
| ·The Conceptual Representation | 第46-48页 |
| ·The Interactive Meaning of Visual Poetry | 第48-56页 |
| ·Contact | 第48-53页 |
| ·The Visual Contact of the Readers | 第48-50页 |
| ·The Relationships Between the Represented Participants and the Interactive Participants | 第50-53页 |
| ·Social Distance | 第53-54页 |
| ·The Readers' Attitudes | 第54-56页 |
| ·The Spatial Distribution of Typography and the Compositional Meaning | 第56-58页 |
| ·Information Valuation | 第56-57页 |
| ·Salience | 第57页 |
| ·Framing | 第57-58页 |
| ·The Integrated Construction of Multimodal Meaning | 第58-62页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第62-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-67页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第67页 |