| ABSTRACT | 第4页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第8-9页 |
| 1.2 Research Questions and Goals | 第9-10页 |
| 1.3 Organization of the Thesis | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第11-23页 |
| 2.1 CDA Perspective | 第11-15页 |
| 2.1.1 Definition of CDA | 第11页 |
| 2.1.2 Development of CDA | 第11-15页 |
| 2.2 News Discourse | 第15-16页 |
| 2.2.1 Definition of News | 第15-16页 |
| 2.2.2 The Importance and Value of News | 第16页 |
| 2.3 Reported Speech | 第16-23页 |
| 2.3.1 Reporting modes | 第19-20页 |
| 2.3.2 Reporting verbs | 第20-21页 |
| 2.3.3 News Sources | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter Three Research Design | 第23-28页 |
| 3.1 A Brief Introduction of "Chicago Teachers' Strike" | 第23-24页 |
| 3.2 Data collection and Methodology | 第24页 |
| 3.3 Computing Formula and Notions | 第24-28页 |
| Chapter Four Comparative Analysis of Reporting Verbs | 第28-42页 |
| 4.1 Frequency of Reporting Verbs | 第28-33页 |
| 4.1.1 Frequency of Reporting Verbs in Two Languages News Reports | 第28-32页 |
| 4.1.2 Analysis of the Results | 第32-33页 |
| 4.2 Bias of Reporting Verbs | 第33-39页 |
| 4.2.1 Affect Value of Reporting Verbs | 第33-38页 |
| 4.2.2 Quantities and Proportion of Reporting Verbs | 第38-39页 |
| 4.3 Neutral Reporting Verbs | 第39-41页 |
| 4.3.1 Comparison of “说” and “称” | 第39-40页 |
| 4.3.2 Comparison of “say” and “说” | 第40-41页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第41-42页 |
| Chapter Five Reporting Modes,News Sources and Reporting Verbs | 第42-49页 |
| 5.1 Reporting Verbs and Reporting Modes | 第42-44页 |
| 5.1.1 Difference of Indirect Speech | 第42-43页 |
| 5.1.2 Difference of Direct Speech and Free Direct Speech | 第43-44页 |
| 5.1.3 Summary | 第44页 |
| 5.2 Reporting Verbs and News Sources | 第44-49页 |
| 5.2.1 Positions of Reporting Verbs and News Sources | 第44-46页 |
| 5.2.2 Distribution of News Sources | 第46-48页 |
| 5.2.3 Summary | 第48-49页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusions and Limitations | 第49-52页 |
| 6.1 Major Findings | 第49-50页 |
| 6.2 Limitations | 第50-52页 |
| References | 第52-57页 |
| Appendix | 第57-59页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第59页 |
