| Acknowledgements | 第8-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-13页 |
| 摘要 | 第14-17页 |
| Figures and Tables | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第19-32页 |
| 1.1 Introduction | 第19-21页 |
| 1.2 Elucidation of Key Notions | 第21-25页 |
| 1.2.1 Mode,modality,multi-semiotic,and multimodality | 第21-23页 |
| 1.2.2 Multimodal text | 第23-24页 |
| 1.2.3 Visual multimodal texts | 第24-25页 |
| 1.2.4 Multimodal newspaper texts | 第25页 |
| 1.2.5 Image | 第25页 |
| 1.3 Descriptive Framework for Multimodal Newspaper Texts | 第25-29页 |
| 1.3.1 Genre and multimodal text analysis | 第26-27页 |
| 1.3.2 Multimodal genre | 第27-28页 |
| 1.3.3 Building a genre-based model | 第28-29页 |
| 1.4 Structure of the Thesis | 第29-30页 |
| 1.5 Summary | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter 2 Multimodality in Newsaper Texts | 第32-45页 |
| 2.1 Newspaper Texts as Communication | 第32页 |
| 2.2 Technology and Multimodal Newspaper Texts | 第32-37页 |
| 2.2.1 Printing Press and Printed Newspaper | 第33-34页 |
| 2.2.2 Photograph editing and the use of photographs | 第34页 |
| 2.2.3 Technology and design innovation | 第34-35页 |
| 2.2.4 Images as important meaning cariers in current newspapers | 第35-37页 |
| 2.3 Studies on Multimodal Newspaper Texts | 第37-44页 |
| 2.3.1 Studies on multimodal news reports | 第37-42页 |
| 2.3.1.1 Studies of multimodality in news reports from stylistic approach | 第38-40页 |
| 2.3.1.2 Studies of multimodality in news reports from SFL | 第40-42页 |
| 2.3.1.3 Studies of multimodality in news reports from other perspectives | 第42页 |
| 2.3.2 Studies on multimodal opinions | 第42-43页 |
| 2.3.3 Comparative studies on newspaper texts | 第43-44页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第44-45页 |
| Chapter 3 Studies on Visual Multimodal Texts | 第45-69页 |
| 3.1 Multimodal Newspaper Texts as One Type of Visual Multimodal Texts | 第45页 |
| 3.2 Perspectives on Visual Multimodal Texts | 第45-46页 |
| 3.3 Visual Multimodal Text as an Object of Perception | 第46-48页 |
| 3.4 Visual Multimodal Text as an Object of Interpretation | 第48-67页 |
| 3.4.1 Studies on the meanings in images | 第48-55页 |
| 3.4.1.1 Barthes' two-ordered photographic message | 第48-49页 |
| 3.4.1.2 Metaphorical interpretation of meanings in images | 第49-50页 |
| 3.4.1.3 Kress and van Leewen's visual grammar | 第50-55页 |
| 3.4.2 Studies on image-text interaction | 第55-63页 |
| 3.4.2.1 Barthes' study of image-text relations | 第55-57页 |
| 3.4.2.2 Bateman's Rhetoric Structure | 第57-58页 |
| 3.4.2.3 Logico-semantic studies on image-text relations | 第58-61页 |
| 3.4.2.4 Studies on image-text relations from other perspectives | 第61-63页 |
| 3.4.3 Studies on genre and multimodal documents | 第63-66页 |
| 3.4.3.1 Genre in document layout | 第63页 |
| 3.4.3.2 Batesman's GeM Model | 第63-66页 |
| 3.4.4 Studies on typography and visual layout | 第66-67页 |
| 3.5 Summary | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter 4 Descriptive Layers of the Genre-based Model | 第69-117页 |
| 4.1 Writing and Images as Two Modes With Perceptual Equity | 第69-70页 |
| 4.2 Building the Genre-based Model | 第70-73页 |
| 4.3 The Genre-based Model:the Base Layer | 第73-88页 |
| 4.3.1 Representation systems:Typography and Graphics | 第73-80页 |
| 4.3.1.1 Typography and Graphics as meaning potentials | 第74-78页 |
| 4.3.1.2 Typography and Graphics as important elements in layout design | 第78-79页 |
| 4.3.1.3 Typography and Graphics as framing devices | 第79-80页 |
| 4.3.2 Identifying base units | 第80-82页 |
| 4.3.3 Labeling base units | 第82-85页 |
| 4.3.4 Unit composites:grouping base units functionally | 第85-88页 |
| 4.4 The Genre-based Model:the Layout Layer | 第88-96页 |
| 4.4.1 Principle for newspaper layout | 第88-89页 |
| 4.4.2 Area model:specifying location | 第89-93页 |
| 4.4.3 Generalizing layout pattern | 第93-96页 |
| 4.5 The Genre-based Model:the Rhetorical Layer | 第96-108页 |
| 4.5.1 Meaning of rhetoric | 第96-97页 |
| 4.5.2 Rhetorical relations | 第97-100页 |
| 4.5.2.1 Rhetorical hierarchy | 第97-98页 |
| 4.5.2.2 Logico-semantic relations | 第98-100页 |
| 4.5.3 Rhetorical relations in Medvedev text | 第100-108页 |
| 4.5.3.1 General logico-semantic relations in multimodal newspaper texts | 第100-102页 |
| 4.5.3.2 Lower level rhetorical relations-photograph-caption interplay | 第102-104页 |
| 4.5.3.3 Higher level rhetorical relations-interplay between unit composites | 第104-108页 |
| 4.6 One More Exemplar Analysis | 第108-116页 |
| 4.6.1 Features at the Base laver | 第108-110页 |
| 4.6.2 Features at the Layout layer | 第110-111页 |
| 4.6.3 Features at the Rhetorical layer | 第111-114页 |
| 4.6.4 Summary of the features in Medvedev text and Putin article | 第114-116页 |
| 4.7 Summary | 第116-117页 |
| Chapter 5 Genre and Multimodal Newspaper Texts | 第117-155页 |
| 5.1 Linguistic Perspectives on Genre | 第117-120页 |
| 5.1.1 Genre as social action | 第117-118页 |
| 5.1.2 Genre as social semiotic | 第118-120页 |
| 5.2 Multimodal Genre | 第120-126页 |
| 5.2.1 Defining multimodal genre | 第120-121页 |
| 5.2.2 Moving to multimodal genre | 第121-125页 |
| 5.2.2.1 Moving to multimodal genre from linguistic approaches to genre | 第122-123页 |
| 5.2.2.2 Moving to multimodal genre from studies on visual genre | 第123-125页 |
| 5.2.3 Multimodal genre as foundation for comparison | 第125-126页 |
| 5.3 Genres of Multimodal Newspaper Texts | 第126-132页 |
| 5.3.1 Genres of verbal newspaper texts | 第126-128页 |
| 5.3.2 Op-Ed:a new genre of newspaper texts | 第128-129页 |
| 5.3.3 Identifying genres of multimodal newspaper texts | 第129-132页 |
| 5.4 Generic Interpretation of Image-text Complementary News Stories and Opinions | 第132-153页 |
| 5.4.1 Generic interpretation of similar features-typography,graphics and layout revealing newspaper's personality | 第133-136页 |
| 5.4.2 Generic interpretation of feature differences-verbal text and image differentiating news story genre from opinion genre | 第136-152页 |
| 5.4.2.1 Genre and Headline | 第136-137页 |
| 5.4.2.2 Genre and Verbal Body | 第137-143页 |
| 5.4.2.3 Genre and Image | 第143-152页 |
| 5.4.3 Generic interpretation of Rhetorical features | 第152-153页 |
| 5.5 Summary | 第153-155页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclussion | 第155-159页 |
| AppendixⅠ Selected data for analysis | 第159-161页 |
| AppendixⅡ Exemplar Analysis of verbal texts in multimodal newspaper texts | 第161-171页 |
| Bibliography | 第171-180页 |
