| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Main Theories and Basic Concepts | 第15-39页 |
| ·Stylistics Research and Paul Werth’s Text World Model | 第15-28页 |
| ·The Objectives of Stylistics Research | 第15-17页 |
| ·The Importance of Text, Context and Reader Response in Stylistics Research | 第17-25页 |
| ·The Importance of Text | 第18-22页 |
| ·The Importance of Context | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Importance of Reader Response | 第23-25页 |
| ·Paul Werth’s Text World Model as an Integrative Theory | 第25-28页 |
| ·Summaries | 第28页 |
| ·A Text World Model of Modality | 第28-34页 |
| ·Definition and Classification of Modality | 第28-30页 |
| ·Approaches to Modality | 第30-32页 |
| ·Text World Model and Modality | 第32-33页 |
| ·Summaries | 第33-34页 |
| ·Negation as a Modality | 第34-39页 |
| ·Syntactic and Lexical Negation | 第34-36页 |
| ·Pragmatic Functions of Negation | 第36-37页 |
| ·Negation and Paul Werth’s Text World Model | 第37-38页 |
| ·Summaries | 第38-39页 |
| Chapter 2 The Beatles and Their Song Lyrics | 第39-44页 |
| ·The Beatles in Music and Culture | 第39-41页 |
| ·Biography of the Beatles | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Impact of the Beatles on Music, Culture and Society | 第40-41页 |
| ·Summaries | 第41页 |
| ·Previous Research on the Beatles | 第41-44页 |
| ·Previous Cultural and Social Studies on the Beatles | 第41-42页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Beatles’Song Lyrics | 第42-43页 |
| ·Summaries | 第43-44页 |
| Chapter 3 Use Text World Model to Explore the Beatles’Song Lyrics through a Qualitative Study of Negation Modality | 第44-53页 |
| ·Introduction | 第44页 |
| ·Definition of Negation in the Beatles’Song Lyrics | 第44-51页 |
| ·The Role of Negation in World Building in the Beatle’s Song Lyrics | 第51-52页 |
| ·Summaries | 第52-53页 |
| Chapter 4 Use Text World Model to Explore the Beatles’Song Lyrics through a Quantitative Study of Negation Modality | 第53-65页 |
| ·Introduction | 第53-57页 |
| ·Electronic Text Databases and Machine Readable Corpora | 第53-54页 |
| ·Corpus Analysis Tools | 第54-55页 |
| ·Statistical Analysis | 第55-56页 |
| ·Methodology | 第56-57页 |
| ·Findings and Discussions | 第57-63页 |
| ·Frequency of Negation Words in the Corpus according to Grammatical Category | 第57-58页 |
| ·Distribution of Negation Words in the Corpus | 第58-61页 |
| ·Discussions | 第61-63页 |
| ·Summaries | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusions | 第65-69页 |
| ·The Functions of Negation in Discourse | 第65页 |
| ·Limitations of the Traditional Theories of Music | 第65-67页 |
| ·Final Remarks and Suggestions for Further Research | 第67-69页 |
| References | 第69-71页 |
