| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第9-10页 |
| List of English Movie Posters | 第10-11页 |
| Contents | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-19页 |
| ·General introduction to the study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Purposes of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research methodology | 第16-17页 |
| ·Organization of the study | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第19-23页 |
| ·Overview of movie posters | 第19页 |
| ·Foreign studies on movie posters | 第19-21页 |
| ·Domestic studies on movie posters | 第21-22页 |
| ·Summary | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第23-33页 |
| ·Representational meaning | 第24-27页 |
| ·Narrative process | 第24-25页 |
| ·Conceptual process | 第25-27页 |
| ·Interactive meaning | 第27-30页 |
| ·Contact | 第27-28页 |
| ·Social distance | 第28页 |
| ·Perspective | 第28-29页 |
| ·Modality | 第29-30页 |
| ·Compositional meaning | 第30-33页 |
| ·Information value | 第30页 |
| ·Salience | 第30-31页 |
| ·Framing | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter 4 Analysis of English MPs within the Framework of VG | 第33-58页 |
| ·Representational meaning of English movie posters | 第33-40页 |
| ·Narrative process in English movie posters | 第33-38页 |
| ·Action process in English movie posters | 第34-35页 |
| ·Reactional process in English movie posters | 第35-37页 |
| ·Circumstance in English movie posters | 第37-38页 |
| ·Conceptual process in English movie posters | 第38-40页 |
| ·Classificational process in English movie posters | 第38-39页 |
| ·Symbolic process in English movie posters | 第39-40页 |
| ·Interactive meaning in English movie posters | 第40-51页 |
| ·Contact in English movie posters | 第41-43页 |
| ·Demanding act in English movie posters | 第41-42页 |
| ·Offering act in English movie posters | 第42-43页 |
| ·Social distance in English movie posters | 第43-46页 |
| ·Intimate distance in English movie posters | 第43-44页 |
| ·Personal distance in English movie posters | 第44页 |
| ·Impersonal distance in English movie posters | 第44-46页 |
| ·Perspective in English movie posters | 第46-49页 |
| ·Horizontal angle in English movie posters | 第46-47页 |
| ·Vertical angle in English movie posters | 第47-49页 |
| ·Modality in English movie posters | 第49-51页 |
| ·High modality in English movie posters | 第49-50页 |
| ·Middle modality in English movie posters | 第50-51页 |
| ·Low modality in English movie posters | 第51页 |
| ·Compositional meaning in English movie posters | 第51-56页 |
| ·Information value in English movie posters | 第51-54页 |
| ·Left-right spatial arrangement in English movie posters | 第52页 |
| ·Top-bottom spatial arrangement in English movie posters | 第52-53页 |
| ·Center-margin spatial arrangement in English movie posters | 第53-54页 |
| ·Salience in English movie posters | 第54-55页 |
| ·Color contrast in English movie posters | 第54页 |
| ·Relative size in English movie posters | 第54-55页 |
| ·Framing in English movie posters | 第55-56页 |
| ·Frame constitution in English movie posters | 第55-56页 |
| ·Segmentation line in English movie posters | 第56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56-58页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第58-61页 |
| ·Summary of the study | 第58页 |
| ·Major findings of the study | 第58-59页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further studies | 第59-61页 |
| References | 第61-67页 |
| Publication | 第67页 |
