| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第7-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第11-21页 |
| ·Background: growing indigenous consciousness in Shanghai | 第11-14页 |
| ·Basic assumptions of the present study | 第14-18页 |
| ·Conceptualizing the Shanghai identity: Abrief historicaloverview | 第14-17页 |
| ·Popular culture and identity formation | 第17-18页 |
| ·Significance of the present study and research questions | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter II Literature Review | 第21-33页 |
| ·Identity studies in different research paradigms | 第21-24页 |
| ·The psychological approach to identity: The cognitive aspect of identity | 第21-22页 |
| ·The sociological and anthropological approach to identity: Cultural identity studies | 第22-24页 |
| ·A critical approach to identity studies | 第24-27页 |
| ·Discourse and the construction of identity | 第24-25页 |
| ·Critical discourse analysis and identity studies | 第25-27页 |
| ·Existing literature on the Shanghai identity | 第27-33页 |
| ·Xiong Yuezhi and his historical research | 第27-28页 |
| ·Wu Da and his ethnic approach to the Shanghai identity | 第28-31页 |
| ·Discursive approaches to the Shanghai identity | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter III Methodology and Theoretical Framework | 第33-53页 |
| ·Rationale behind the adoption of a critical discourse approach | 第33-44页 |
| ·Textual analysis: The reading of texts | 第33-34页 |
| ·Justifying text-only analysis | 第34-40页 |
| ·CDA as a theory and method in the present study | 第40-44页 |
| ·Data collection and selection | 第44-46页 |
| ·The lyrics: Texts as traces of discourse | 第44-45页 |
| ·The problems of lyric-only analysis | 第45-46页 |
| ·The adoption of the analytical tools of Wodak et al. (1999) | 第46-53页 |
| ·The Shanghai identity as a form of social identity | 第46-49页 |
| ·The analytical tools | 第49-53页 |
| Chapter IV Data Analysis and Discussion | 第53-73页 |
| ·Results of analysis | 第53-64页 |
| ·Looking beyond the analytical framework | 第64-70页 |
| ·Answering the research question | 第70-73页 |
| Chapter V Conclusion | 第73-76页 |
| ·Summary of the present study | 第73-74页 |
| ·Limitations and implications of the present study | 第74-76页 |
| References | 第76-84页 |
| Appendix | 第84-87页 |
