| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第6-7页 |
| ENGLISH ABSTRACT | 第7页 |
| CHINESE ABSTRACT | 第8-14页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第14-21页 |
| 1.1 Significance of the Study | 第14-16页 |
| 1.2 Objectives of the Study | 第16页 |
| 1.3 Methodology and Data Collection | 第16-19页 |
| 1.4 Structure of the Thesis | 第19-21页 |
| CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW | 第21-34页 |
| 2.1 Definition of Evidentiality | 第21页 |
| 2.2 Previous Researches on Evidentiality in News Discourses | 第21-25页 |
| 2.3 Previous Researches on Chinese Dream Discourses | 第25-28页 |
| 2.4 Previous Researches on Positive Discourse Analysis | 第28-31页 |
| 2.5 Comments on Previous Studies | 第31-34页 |
| CHAPTER 3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第34-42页 |
| 3.1 Some Concepts in Systemic Functional Linguistics | 第34-38页 |
| 3.1.1 Language as social-semiotic and meaning potential | 第34-35页 |
| 3.1.2 Three metafunctions | 第35页 |
| 3.1.3 Transitivity system | 第35-36页 |
| 3.1.4 Modality system in systemic functional linguistics | 第36-38页 |
| 3.2 Collocation Analysis | 第38-40页 |
| 3.3 Theoretical Framework of the study | 第40-42页 |
| CHAPTER 4 DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS OF EVIDENTIALITY IN ENGLISH NEW SDISCOURSES of the CHINESE DREAM | 第42-67页 |
| 4.1 Classification of Evidentiality | 第42-51页 |
| 4.1.1 Various classifications of evidentiality | 第43-46页 |
| 4.1.2 Classification of evidentiality in the current study | 第46-51页 |
| 4.2 Identification of Evidentials in the Data | 第51-53页 |
| 4.3 Distribution Patterns and Frequencies of Evidential Types in English Discourse of the Chinese Dream | 第53-59页 |
| 4.4 Lexicogrammatical Realizations of Evidential Types in English Discourses of Chinese Dream | 第59-64页 |
| 4.5 Information Sources in English Discourses of Chinese Dream | 第64-65页 |
| 4.6 Summary | 第65-67页 |
| CHAPTER 5 CONNOTATIONS OF CHINESE DREAM IN ENGLISH DISCOURSES OF THE CHINESE DREAM REALIZED BY EVIDENTIALITY | 第67-84页 |
| 5.1 Understandings of the Connotations of Chinese Dream | 第67-68页 |
| 5.2 The Connotations of Chinese Dream realized by various types of evidentials | 第68-73页 |
| 5.3 The Functions of Information Source | 第73-81页 |
| 5.3.1 The National Chinese Dream | 第73-78页 |
| 5.3.2 The Individual Chinese Dream | 第78-81页 |
| 5.4 Summary | 第81-84页 |
| CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION | 第84-88页 |
| 6.1 Findings of the Study | 第84-86页 |
| 6.2 Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Future Study | 第86-88页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第88-94页 |
| APPENDIX 1 DATA SOURCES | 第94-99页 |
| APPENDIX 2 DATA-CODING SAMPLES | 第99-101页 |
| 攻读学位期间取得的研究成果 | 第101-102页 |
| 个人简况 | 第102-103页 |
