| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第12-18页 |
| 1.1 Background of Research | 第12-15页 |
| 1.2 Significance of Research | 第15-16页 |
| 1.3 Organization of Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第18-24页 |
| 2.1 Previous Studies in Appraisal Theory | 第18-21页 |
| 2.2 Previous studies on the Televised Presidential Debates | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter Three THEORETICAL BASE | 第24-42页 |
| 3.1 Appraisal Theory | 第24-27页 |
| 3.1.1 Attitude-Subsystem of Appraisal Theory | 第24-25页 |
| 3.1.2 Attitude-Subsystem of Appraisal Theory | 第25-27页 |
| 3.2 Facial expressions-Observable Indicators for Unobservable Emotional Response | 第27-33页 |
| 3.2.1 Relations between Appraisal and Emotion | 第28-29页 |
| 3.2.2 Appraisal-Emotion Model | 第29-33页 |
| 3.3 Gestures | 第33-42页 |
| 3.3.2 Relations between Speech and Gesture | 第37-38页 |
| 3.3.3 Differences between Speech and Gesture in Construing Meaning | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Four RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第42-48页 |
| 4.1 Research Questions | 第42-43页 |
| 4.2 Data Collection | 第43-45页 |
| 4.3 Analysis Tools | 第45页 |
| 4.4 Analytic Procedure | 第45-48页 |
| Chapter Five RESULT AND DISCUSSION | 第48-90页 |
| 5.1 Attitudinal Meaning Constructed by both Speech and Facial expressions | 第48-74页 |
| 5.1.1 Consistency of Attitudinal Meanings between Speech and Facial expressions | 第48-56页 |
| 5.1.2 Consistency of Attitudinal Meanings between Speech and Facial expressions(Scorn) | 第56-62页 |
| 5.1.3 Inconsistency of Attitudinal Meanings between Speech and Facialexpressions (A) | 第62-65页 |
| 5.1.4 Inconsistency of Attitudinal Meanings between Speech and Facialexpressions (B) | 第65-68页 |
| 5.1.5 Inconsistency of Attitudinal Meanings between Speech and Facialexpressions (C) | 第68-74页 |
| 5.2 Attitudinal Meaning Constructed by both Speech and Gesture | 第74-90页 |
| 5.2.1 Metaphoric Gesture with Time Length | 第75-79页 |
| 5.2.2 Metaphoric Gesture with Specific Image | 第79-82页 |
| 5.2.3 Abstract Pointing | 第82-84页 |
| 5.2.4 Descriptive Gesture | 第84-87页 |
| 5.2.5 Invalid Gesture | 第87-90页 |
| Chapter Six CONCLUSION | 第90-96页 |
| 6.1 Major Findings | 第90-92页 |
| 6.1.1 Major Findings in the Attitudinal Meaning Constructed by Speech and Facialexpressions | 第90-91页 |
| 6.1.2 Major Findings in the Attitudinal Meaning Constructed by Speech andGestures | 第91-92页 |
| 6.2 Limitation | 第92-93页 |
| 6.3 Future Work | 第93-96页 |
| References | 第96-101页 |
| 攻读学位期间科研成果 | 第101页 |
