| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-11页 |
| ·The General Idea of Metaphor, Grammatical Metaphor (GM) and News Discourse | 第8-9页 |
| ·The Outline of This Thesis | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter 2 A Literature Review of GM | 第11-32页 |
| ·Early Studies on the Metaphorical Nature of Grammar | 第11-14页 |
| ·Studies on Iconicity | 第12-13页 |
| ·Studies on Grammaticalization | 第13-14页 |
| ·Halliday’s View of GM | 第14-27页 |
| ·Lexical Metaphor and GM | 第15-17页 |
| ·Illustrating the Connotation of “Congruent” | 第17-20页 |
| ·Classification of GM | 第20-27页 |
| ·Ideational GM and Its Realization | 第20-24页 |
| ·Interpersonal GM and Its Realization | 第24-27页 |
| ·Other Scholars’ Contributions to the Development of GM Research | 第27-32页 |
| ·Fan’s Model of GM in Selection of Transitivity Functions | 第27-29页 |
| ·Prototype and GM in Sequence of Group-phrase Classes | 第29-30页 |
| ·Textual GM | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter 3 News Discourse | 第32-35页 |
| ·Features of News Discourse | 第32-34页 |
| ·Previous Studies on News Discourse | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Findings of GM in News Discourse | 第35-54页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analysis Procedure | 第35-36页 |
| ·General Analysis of GM Occurrences in VOA and CRI News Discourse | 第36-39页 |
| ·Findings and Discussion of Ideational GM | 第39-50页 |
| ·Selection of Process Type | 第39-45页 |
| ·Configuration of Transitivity Functions | 第45-48页 |
| ·Sequence of Group-phrase Classes | 第48-50页 |
| ·Findings and Discussion of Interpersonal Metaphor | 第50-52页 |
| ·Observations on Nominalization in News Discourse | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| ·Summary of Findings | 第54-55页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第55-56页 |
| Appendix | 第56-67页 |
| News on VOA | 第56-60页 |
| News on CRI | 第60-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-69页 |
