| Acknowledgements | 第4-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| 1.1 Research Objects | 第10-11页 |
| 1.2 Research Topics | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-19页 |
| 2.1 Traditional Accounts of Speech Reporting | 第14-15页 |
| 2.2 Discourse-pragmatic Accounts of Speech Reporting | 第15-16页 |
| 2.3 The Study of Speech Reporting in News Discourses | 第16-19页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Frameworks | 第19-27页 |
| 3.1 A Brief Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis(CDA) | 第19-21页 |
| 3.2 Leech & Short's Modes of Speech Reporting | 第21-24页 |
| 3.2.1 Direct Speech(DS) | 第21-22页 |
| 3.2.2 Indirect Speech(IS) | 第22-23页 |
| 3.2.3 Free Direct Speech(FDS) | 第23页 |
| 3.2.4 Free Indirect Speech(FIS) | 第23页 |
| 3.2.5 The Narrative Report of Speech Acts(NRSA) | 第23-24页 |
| 3.3 Fairclough's Three-dimensional Framework | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter Four Functions of Speech Reporting in Hard News | 第27-40页 |
| 4.1 Forms and Functions of Direct Speech | 第27-31页 |
| 4.2 Forms and Functions of Indirect Speech | 第31-34页 |
| 4.2.1 The Normal Form of Indirect Speech | 第31页 |
| 4.2.2 Free Indirect Speech | 第31-34页 |
| 4.3 Forms and Functions of Other Modes of Speech Reporting | 第34-40页 |
| 4.3.1 Free Direct Speech | 第34-35页 |
| 4.3.2 Discontinuous Indirect Speech | 第35-38页 |
| 4.3.3 Slipping | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Five Research Design and Data Collection | 第40-43页 |
| 5.1 Research Design | 第40-41页 |
| 5.2 Data Collection | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter Six Critical Analysis and Comparison | 第43-55页 |
| 6.1 The Analysis of Each Newspaper | 第43-44页 |
| 6.3 The Comparison Between the Two Newspapers | 第44-45页 |
| 6.4 The Comparison of International News Reports | 第45-55页 |
| Chapter Seven Critical Explanations for the Findings | 第55-59页 |
| 7.1 The Explanations from the Cultural Perspective | 第56-57页 |
| 7.2 The Explanations from the Political Perspective | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter Eight Conclusion | 第59-61页 |
| References | 第61-65页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Numbers and incidence of speech reporting | 第65-67页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Numbers and incidence of IS,DIS and slipping,whose reporting clauses are at the end of the sentences | 第67-69页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ Numbers and incidence of news sources | 第69-70页 |
| Appendi Ⅳ | 第70-72页 |
| List 1 Numbers and tiles of sample hard news in China Daily | 第70-71页 |
| List 2 Numbers and tiles of sample hard news in The Washington Post | 第71-72页 |
| 在读期间发表的学术论文及研究成果 | 第72页 |
