| ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH | 第1-4页 |
| ABSTRACT IN CHINESE | 第4-7页 |
| Chapter One General Introduction | 第7-14页 |
| 1．1 Preliminary | 第7-10页 |
| 1．2 Aim of the Study | 第10页 |
| 1．3 Tools and Methods | 第10-12页 |
| 1．3．1 Corpora Used | 第10-11页 |
| 1．3．2 Programs and Software | 第11-12页 |
| 1．4 Layout of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two A General View on Reporting Verbs | 第14-36页 |
| 2．1 A Syntactic View on Reporting Verbs | 第15-20页 |
| 2．1．1 Reporting Verbs with Quotations | 第15-16页 |
| 2．1．2 Reporting Verbs Followed by That-clauses | 第16-18页 |
| 2．1．3 Reporting Verbs Followed by Wh-clauses | 第18-20页 |
| 2．2 A Semantic View on Reporting Verbs | 第20-27页 |
| 2．2．1 Reporting Verbs and Different Speech Acts | 第20-22页 |
| 2．2．2 Affective Reporting Verbs | 第22-27页 |
| 2．3 A Grammatical View on Reporting Verbs | 第27-36页 |
| 2．3．1 Speech | 第27-29页 |
| 2．3．2 The Position of Reporting Verbs in Reporting Structures | 第29-33页 |
| 2．3．3 Reporting Verbs and Tense | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter Three Affective Reporting Verbs and News Reportage | 第36-61页 |
| 3．1 Previous Studies on Reporting Verbs and News Reportage | 第40-50页 |
| 3．2 A General View on News Reportage | 第50-56页 |
| 3．2．1 News Value | 第50-51页 |
| 3．2．2 News Sources | 第51-52页 |
| 3．2．3 Style in News Reportage | 第52-56页 |
| 3．3 Reporting Verbs and News Reportage--Problems of Objectivity | 第56-61页 |
| Chapter Four Quantitative Analysis of Reporting Verbs | 第61-85页 |
| 4．1 General Frequency and Distribution of Reporting Verbs in Four Different Corpora | 第64-68页 |
| 4．2 Frequency and Distribution of Affective Reporting Verbs in News Corpora | 第68-85页 |
| 4．2．1 The Frequency and Distribution of Neutral Reporting Verbs in News Corpora | 第68-76页 |
| 4．2．2 The Frequency and Distribution of Positive Reporting Verbs in News Corpora | 第76-82页 |
| 4．2．3 The Frequency and Distribution of Negative Reporting Verbs in News Corpora | 第82-85页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第85-87页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第87-88页 |
| REFERENCES | 第88-89页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第89-94页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第94-99页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ | 第99-100页 |
