| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第11-13页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第14页 |
| ·Methdology and Data Collection | 第14页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-28页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Passivism in Chinese and English | 第16-21页 |
| ·Voice and Passivism | 第16-17页 |
| ·Passives in Chinese | 第17-18页 |
| ·Passives in English | 第18-21页 |
| ·Functional Approach to Passives | 第19页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to Passives | 第19-20页 |
| ·Formal Approach to Passives | 第20-21页 |
| ·Previous Study of Power Relation | 第21-24页 |
| ·Power and Inequality | 第21-22页 |
| ·Power Relation Researches | 第22-24页 |
| ·Previous Study of Grammatical Metaphor | 第24-27页 |
| ·Traditional Notion of Grammatical Metaphor | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Systemic Notion of Grammatical Metaphor | 第25-26页 |
| ·Other Interpretation of Grammatical Metaphor | 第26-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第28-48页 |
| ·A Systemic-functional Approach | 第28-34页 |
| ·Metafunctions | 第28-29页 |
| ·Multi-levels of Language and Realizations | 第29页 |
| ·Grammatical Metaphor | 第29-34页 |
| ·Congruent Form and Incongruent Form | 第30-31页 |
| ·Classification of Grammatical Metaphor | 第31-34页 |
| ·Critical Discourse Analysis | 第34-39页 |
| ·Discourse and Critical Discourse Analysis | 第34-36页 |
| ·Fairclough's Three-dimensional Model | 第36-38页 |
| ·Teun van Dijk's Socio-cognitive Approach | 第38-39页 |
| ·Viewpoints of Foucault's Power and Discourse Theory | 第39页 |
| ·Traditional Passives and Neo-bei Constructions | 第39-47页 |
| ·Traditional Passives in Chinese | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Basic Forms of Traditional Oassives in Chinese | 第40页 |
| ·The Verb in Passives | 第40-41页 |
| ·The Ellipsis in bei Constructions | 第41-42页 |
| ·Neo-bei Constructions | 第42-47页 |
| ·The Concept of Neo-bei Constructions | 第42页 |
| ·The Formation of Neo-bei Constructions | 第42-44页 |
| ·Neo-bei Constructions and Grammatical Metaphor | 第44-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47-48页 |
| Chapter Four Critical Discourse Analysis of Neo-bei Constructions as Grammatical Metaphor | 第48-57页 |
| ·Systemic Analysis of Neo-bei Constructions | 第48-50页 |
| ·Semantic Features of Neo-bei Constructions | 第48-49页 |
| ·Metafunctions of Neo-bei Constructions | 第49-50页 |
| ·Context of Neo-bei Constructions | 第50页 |
| ·Explanations of the Creation of Neo-bei Constructions | 第50-53页 |
| ·Inequality and Irony | 第50-51页 |
| ·Linguistic Politeness | 第51-53页 |
| ·Vulnerability of the Recipients | 第53页 |
| ·Power Relation and Grammatical Metaphor | 第53-55页 |
| ·Transitivization and Materialization | 第53-54页 |
| ·Transitivization and Information Concentration | 第54-55页 |
| ·Transitivization and Alignment | 第55页 |
| ·Transitivization and Vulnerability | 第55页 |
| ·Summary | 第55-57页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第57-58页 |
| ·Implications of the Study | 第58页 |
| ·Prospects for Further Research | 第58-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-63页 |
