| ABSTRACT | 第1-4页 |
| 摘要 | 第4-6页 |
| List of Figures | 第6-7页 |
| List of Tables | 第7-8页 |
| CONTENTS | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-17页 |
| ·English Disaster News Reports | 第10-12页 |
| ·Research Background | 第12-14页 |
| ·Aim and Significance of the Study | 第14页 |
| ·Data and Research Methodology | 第14-15页 |
| ·Layout of This Dissertation | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review and Theoretical Foundation | 第17-30页 |
| ·Previous Academic Studies of English News Reports | 第17-19页 |
| ·Style and the Theory of Foregrounding | 第19-28页 |
| ·Style | 第19-20页 |
| ·Formalism and "Defamiliarization" | 第20-21页 |
| ·Structualists'Foregrounding Theory | 第21-23页 |
| ·Leech's Synthesis of the Foregrounding Theory | 第23-25页 |
| ·Halliday's Conception of the Foregrounding Theory | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Application of Foregrounding Theory in China | 第27-28页 |
| ·An Integrative Mode for Foregrounding Feature Analysis | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter 3 Contextual Factors Analysis of EDNRs | 第30-34页 |
| ·Contextual Factors Analysis | 第30-31页 |
| ·Field of Discourse | 第30页 |
| ·Tenor of Discourse | 第30-31页 |
| ·Mode of Discourse | 第31页 |
| ·Communicative Purposes of EDNRs | 第31-34页 |
| Chapter 4 Foregrounding Features at the Semantic Level in EDNRs | 第34-41页 |
| ·The Headline | 第34-36页 |
| ·The Lead | 第36-39页 |
| ·The Body | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter 5 Foregrounding Features at the Lexico-grammatical and Graphological Levels inEDNRs | 第41-80页 |
| ·Incongruity in EDNRs | 第41-49页 |
| ·Grammatical Incongruity | 第41-45页 |
| ·Lexical Incongruity | 第45-48页 |
| ·Graphological Incongruity | 第48-49页 |
| ·Deflection in EDNRs | 第49-80页 |
| ·Grammatical Deflection | 第49-68页 |
| ·"Vividness" Realized by the Active Voice | 第49-55页 |
| ·"Objectivity" Realized by Quoted/Reported Speeches | 第55-61页 |
| ·"Meaning Contraction" Realized by Parenthesis | 第61-63页 |
| ·"Meaning Contraction" Realized by Participle Phrases | 第63-64页 |
| ·"Topic-Restricted" Realized by the Past Tense | 第64-68页 |
| ·Lexical Deflection | 第68-72页 |
| ·Graphological Deflection | 第72-80页 |
| ·"Meaning Contraction" Realized by Punctuation | 第72-74页 |
| ·"Clarity" Realized by Short Paragraphs | 第74-80页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第80-84页 |
| ·Research Findings and Their Significance | 第80-82页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第82-84页 |
| Bibliography | 第84-88页 |
| Appendix | 第88-90页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第90-91页 |
| 论文发表情况 | 第91-92页 |
