| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Table of Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第11页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第13-18页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Transitivity | 第13-17页 |
| ·A Review of Traditional Grammar on Transitivity and Its Limitation | 第13页 |
| ·Systemic-Functional Grammar's Approaches to Transitivity | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Previous studies and applications of transitivity analysis | 第14-17页 |
| ·Previous Study of Presidents’ Speech with Transitivity Analysis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Three Theory and Methodology | 第18-30页 |
| ·Three Metafunctions of Language | 第18-28页 |
| ·The Ideational Function | 第19-27页 |
| ·The Interpersonal Function | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Textual Function | 第28页 |
| ·Data and Methodology | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Four A Contrastive Analysis of Presidents’ New Year Blessings | 第30-64页 |
| ·Statistics of Transitivity on New Year Blessings | 第30-45页 |
| ·Transitivity Statistics of text | 第30-32页 |
| ·Transitivity Statistics of text | 第32-34页 |
| ·Transitivity Statistics of text | 第34-36页 |
| ·Transitivity Statistics of text | 第36-39页 |
| ·Transitivity Statistics of text | 第39-41页 |
| ·Transitivity Statistics of text | 第41-43页 |
| ·Transitivity Statistics of text | 第43页 |
| ·Transitivity Statistics of text | 第43-45页 |
| ·Transitivity Analysis of Chinese Presidents’ New Year Blessings | 第45-53页 |
| ·The Analysis of Material Process | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Analysis of Exsitential Process | 第49-50页 |
| ·The Analysis of Relational Process | 第50-51页 |
| ·The Analysis of Mental Process | 第51-52页 |
| ·The Analysis of Verbal Process | 第52-53页 |
| ·Transitivity Analysis of American Presidents’ New Year Blessings | 第53-60页 |
| ·The Analysis of Material Process | 第54-56页 |
| ·The Analysis of Relational Process | 第56-57页 |
| ·The Analysis of Mental Process | 第57-59页 |
| ·The Analysis of Verbal Process | 第59页 |
| ·The Analysis of Existential Process | 第59-60页 |
| ·A Contrastive Analysis of Distributions of Processes | 第60-63页 |
| ·Features and Functions of Material Process | 第60-61页 |
| ·Features and Functions of Existential Process | 第61页 |
| ·Features and Functions of Relational Process | 第61-62页 |
| ·Features and Functions of Mental Process | 第62页 |
| ·Features and Functions of Verbal Process | 第62-63页 |
| ·Common Characteristics and Differences | 第63-64页 |
| Chapter Five Findings and Implications | 第64-67页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第64-65页 |
| ·Implications of the research | 第65页 |
| ·Limitations of the research | 第65-66页 |
| ·Suggestion for further study | 第66-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-70页 |
| 发表论文和科研情况说明 | 第70-72页 |
| Appendix | 第72-86页 |
