| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 内容提要 | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·General Introduction | 第10页 |
| ·A Brief Review of Previous Studies of News | 第10-12页 |
| ·From Anecdotical to Sociological Accounts | 第10-11页 |
| ·From Macro-level Sociology to Micro-level Sociology | 第11页 |
| ·From Sociological Analysis to Systematic Content Analysis | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Limitations of Previous Studies and a Brief Introduction to Norman Fairclough’s Framework and Halliday’s Systemic-Functional Linguistics | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Objectives of This Thesis | 第13页 |
| ·The Concept of News and the News Database of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Methodology: Norman Fairclough’s Framework and Halliday’s Systemic-Functional Linguistics | 第15-29页 |
| ·General Introduction to Fairclough’s Three-dimensional Framework | 第15-16页 |
| ·Halliday’s Three Metafunctions of Systemic-Functional Linguistics | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Relationship between Fairclough’s Three-dimensional Framework and Halliday’s Three Metafunctions | 第18-19页 |
| ·Text Analysis (Descriptive Stage ) | 第19-25页 |
| ·Vocabulary | 第20-21页 |
| ·Transitivity | 第21-25页 |
| ·Discursive Practice Analysis (Interpretive Stage) | 第25-27页 |
| ·Social Practice Analysis (Explanative Stage ) | 第27-28页 |
| ·The relationship between the text analysis, intertextuality and hegemony | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter 3 A Practical Analysis of Sample News Reports with Fairclough’s Framework | 第29-46页 |
| ·Descriptive Stage | 第29-39页 |
| ·Vocabulary (Lexical Choice) | 第29-33页 |
| ·Transitivity | 第33-39页 |
| ·Material Process | 第33-36页 |
| ·Relational Process | 第36-39页 |
| ·Discursive Practice Analysis (Interpretive Stage) | 第39-44页 |
| ·News Sources | 第40-41页 |
| ·Modes of Discourse Representation | 第41-44页 |
| ·Social Practice Analysis (Explanative Stage ) | 第44-45页 |
| ·Summary of Analysis | 第45-46页 |
| Chapter 4 An Analysis of Sample News Reports from the Angle of Readers with Concepts from Cognitive Linguistics | 第46-53页 |
| ·Introduction to Some Concepts from Cognitive Linguistics | 第46-48页 |
| ·Categorisation and Prototype Theory | 第46-47页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to the Theory of Idealised Cognitive Models | 第47-48页 |
| ·An Analysis of Sample News Reports with Concepts from Cognitive Linguistics | 第48-53页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第53-56页 |
| ·A Summary of This Study | 第53页 |
| ·Major Findings and Innovative Analysis of This Study | 第53-54页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Future Research | 第54-56页 |
| Appendix | 第56-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-66页 |
