| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review and Theoretical Framework | 第13-21页 |
| ·A Brief Literature Review | 第13-15页 |
| ·Documentary Study of Peasant Workers | 第13-14页 |
| ·Theoretical Study of Peasant Workers | 第14-15页 |
| ·Theoretical Framework | 第15-21页 |
| ·Media and Discourse | 第16-17页 |
| ·Intertextuality, Heteroglossia, and Voices | 第17页 |
| ·Assumption | 第17-18页 |
| ·Genre | 第18页 |
| ·Sign-Value | 第18-19页 |
| ·Lifeworld | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第21-29页 |
| ·Rationale of the Research Methods | 第21-22页 |
| ·With 'Qualitative' as the Focus and 'Quantitative' as the Complement | 第21页 |
| ·'Ethnographic' Serving as the Major Approach to Interview | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Experience of Going Through the Process of Interviewing | 第22-27页 |
| ·Getting Access to My Interviewees | 第22-25页 |
| ·Creating a Comfortable, Safe and Natural Context | 第25-26页 |
| ·No Questions Preset and the Talk Occurring with its Prototypical Appearance | 第26页 |
| ·To Do More Listening than Asking | 第26-27页 |
| ·Trying to Reach Mutual Understanding and Recognition | 第27页 |
| ·Collecting the Media Discourse | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Four Textual Analysis and Findings of Media Discourse | 第29-52页 |
| ·Three Nuanced Discursive Shifts from an Overall Perspective | 第29-37页 |
| ·The Name Shifting | 第29-33页 |
| ·The Theme Shifting | 第33-35页 |
| ·The Genre Shifting | 第35-37页 |
| ·Decoding the Sampled Media Discourse | 第37-47页 |
| ·Headline: Who Are Searching for 'the Index of Happiness' | 第37-38页 |
| ·Themes: The Most Available and Appropriate at the Current Stage | 第38-39页 |
| ·Genre: A Genre Mix with the Hierarchic Structure | 第39-41页 |
| ·Voices: Who Are Speaking | 第41-47页 |
| ·Premier Wen Jiabao's Voices | 第41-42页 |
| ·The Deputies' Voices | 第42-45页 |
| ·The Peasant Workers' Voices | 第45-47页 |
| ·Further Probing into the Sample Data: The Discursive Order behind Texts | 第47-52页 |
| ·Government : In Most Cases Going First | 第48页 |
| ·Journalists: Being Endowed with Limited Freedom | 第48-49页 |
| ·Readers: The Target of All the Efforts | 第49-50页 |
| ·Relevant Agencies, Sponsors: The Undeniable Existence | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter 5 Textual Analysis and Findings of Peasant Workers' Discourse | 第52-70页 |
| ·The Discursive Background of the Collective Acts of Swarming into Cities | 第52-56页 |
| ·Being Driven out by the Discourse | 第52-54页 |
| ·The Invasion of Urban Consumer Culture | 第54-55页 |
| ·The Prevalence of Irrational Discursive Comparison | 第55-56页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第56页 |
| ·The Overall Characteristics of Narratives: Being Dominated by the Discourse of Money | 第56-60页 |
| ·For the House | 第57-58页 |
| ·For Giving the Son a Wife | 第58-59页 |
| ·For Kids' Schooling | 第59-60页 |
| ·The Generally Silenced Parts in the Popular Media Discourse | 第60-70页 |
| ·Lack of Detailed, All -Round Portrayal of How They Live | 第60-63页 |
| ·Lack of Discourse Concerning the Rural Life from Which They Originate, and to Which They still Attach Great Affinity | 第60-62页 |
| ·Lack of Sufficient, Take-for-Granted Perspectives to Portray the Positive Aspects of Their Lives | 第62-63页 |
| ·Lack of Detailed, All- Round Portrayal of How They Feel, Especially How They Feel in Terms of 3Contradictions | 第63-70页 |
| ·The Internal Desire of being Absorbed into the Urban Life and the External Facts of being Rejected | 第65-66页 |
| ·The Reality of Tough Urban Life and the Nostalgic Memory of Once Living in the Countryside | 第66-67页 |
| ·The Internal Potential Self-Esteem and External Discrimination and Alienation | 第67-70页 |
| Chapter Six Discussion | 第70-78页 |
| ·Harmonizing Life an Work | 第72-73页 |
| ·Harmonizing Man and Nature | 第73-75页 |
| ·Harmonizing Human Relations | 第75-78页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第78-80页 |
| Bibliography | 第80-85页 |
| Appendices | 第85-111页 |
| Appendix 1: An Interview with a Baby-Sitter | 第85-89页 |
| Appendix 2: An Interview with a Construction Worker | 第89-94页 |
| Appendix 3: An Interview with a Painter | 第94-97页 |
| Appendix 4: An Interview with a Baby-Sitter | 第97-100页 |
| Appendix 5: An Interview with a Waitress | 第100-103页 |
| Appendix 6: An Interview with a Cake-Maker | 第103-106页 |
| Appendix 7: A Collection of Headlines on Newspapers | 第106-111页 |
| Appendix 8 : Sample Data | 第111页 |
