| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| 摘要 | 第11-14页 |
| List of Figures and Tables | 第14-20页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第20-32页 |
| ·Overview | 第20-23页 |
| ·Rhetoric and Mass-Mediated Reality | 第20-21页 |
| ·Adjustment in Probes into Meaning | 第21-23页 |
| ·Research Objectives | 第23-27页 |
| ·To Account for the Rhetoric of Semogenesis in News Discourse | 第24页 |
| ·To Explore a Rhetoric of Reality through News Discourse | 第24-25页 |
| ·To Approach a Systemic-Functional Rhetoric of Semogenesis | 第25-27页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第27-28页 |
| ·Organization of the Dissertation | 第28-32页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第32-56页 |
| ·Introduction | 第32-33页 |
| ·News Discourse Analysis Abroad | 第33-43页 |
| ·News Discourse Analysis in Applied Linguistics and MDA | 第33-34页 |
| ·News Discourse Analysis in CDA | 第34-37页 |
| ·A Sociolinguistic Approach to News Discourse | 第37-38页 |
| ·A Socio-cognitive Approach to News Structure | 第38-39页 |
| ·Functional Analysis of Interdiscursivity of Media Language | 第39-40页 |
| ·News Discourse as a Rhetorical Device | 第40-41页 |
| ·News Discourse Analysis in Communication Studies | 第41-43页 |
| ·New Discourse Analysis at Home | 第43-46页 |
| ·Domestic News Discourse Analysis in Applied Linguistics and MDA | 第43页 |
| ·Domestic Study of News Discourse in CDA | 第43-45页 |
| ·Domestic Study of News Discourse in Rhetoric | 第45页 |
| ·Domestic Study of News Discourse in Communication Studies | 第45-46页 |
| ·Analysis of Literature | 第46-52页 |
| ·Major Achievements in News Discourse Analysis | 第46-48页 |
| ·Limitations of Present Research | 第48-52页 |
| ·The Na?ve Verbal Realism of MDA | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Obsession of Negative Deconstruction in CDA | 第49-51页 |
| ·The One-Sidedness in the Present Rhetorical Account | 第51页 |
| ·The Divergence of Research Goal in Communication Studies | 第51-52页 |
| ·The Mission Set for This Study | 第52-54页 |
| ·Summary | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework and Methodology | 第56-84页 |
| ·Introduction | 第56-57页 |
| ·Assumption and Hypotheses | 第57-64页 |
| ·Assumption: Language as Symbolic Action | 第57-60页 |
| ·Language as Symbolic | 第57-58页 |
| ·Language as Action | 第58-60页 |
| ·Macro-Hypothesis: A Systemic-Functional Rhetoric of Semogenesis in and through News Discourse | 第60-64页 |
| ·Hypothesis I: News Discourse Conveys Appraisal through Ideation, and Achieves Persuasion through Information | 第61页 |
| ·Hypothesis II: News Discourse Is the Structured Structuring Structure of the Socio-Semiotic Semantic Field | 第61-62页 |
| ·Hypothesis III: Semogenesis Realized through a Systemic-Functional Rhetoric | 第62-64页 |
| ·Theoretical Framework | 第64-80页 |
| ·The Burkean New Rhetoric | 第65-74页 |
| ·A Grammar of Motives: Dramatistic Pentad and Ratio | 第66-70页 |
| ·A Rhetoric of Motives: Identification and Consubstantiality | 第70-72页 |
| ·Studies in Logology: Terministic Screen and Logology | 第72-74页 |
| ·An Outline of the Hallidayan SFL | 第74-76页 |
| ·Potential and Realization | 第74-75页 |
| ·SFL as a Stratified Functional System | 第75-76页 |
| ·The APPRAISAL Theory | 第76-80页 |
| ·Methodology: (Critical) Discourse Analysis | 第80-82页 |
| ·Discourse Analysis | 第80-81页 |
| ·Critical Discourse Analysis | 第81-82页 |
| ·Summary | 第82-84页 |
| Chapter Four Adaptation and Reconstruction:News Discourse in and to Rhetorical Situation | 第84-117页 |
| ·Introduction | 第84页 |
| ·Context, Rhetoric and Truth | 第84-89页 |
| ·Contextual Traits Specific to News Discourse | 第89-93页 |
| ·The Existence of Exigence | 第90-91页 |
| ·The Frequent Absence of Immediate Context | 第91-92页 |
| ·The Perennial Presence of Socio-Cultural Context | 第92-93页 |
| ·News Discourse Adapting to Context | 第93-102页 |
| ·Contextual Construction of News Discourse | 第95-99页 |
| ·News Discourse in Light of the Here-and-Now | 第99-102页 |
| ·“Now ”as Temporal Deictic Center | 第99-101页 |
| ·“Here”as Cultural Deictic Center of Space | 第101-102页 |
| ·News Discourse Restructuring Context | 第102-110页 |
| ·News Discourse Framing Ideology | 第103-108页 |
| ·News Discourse Shaping Knowledge and Values | 第108-110页 |
| ·Text and Context: A Nexus of Discursive Practices | 第110-116页 |
| ·Summary | 第116-117页 |
| Chapter Five Through and of Terministic Screen:Ideational Realization of Semogenesis | 第117-154页 |
| ·Introduction | 第117页 |
| ·Transitivity in SFL Ideational Metafunction | 第117-123页 |
| ·A Critical Dramatistic-Pentadic Analysis of Ideational Realization in News Discourse | 第123-132页 |
| ·A Pentadic Analysis of Discourse Act Scheme | 第124-128页 |
| ·Pentad Overcoming Single Critical Vocabulary | 第128-132页 |
| ·Terministic Screen in the Burkean New Rhetoric | 第132-140页 |
| ·Nomenclature | 第134-136页 |
| ·Terministic Screen and Logology | 第136-140页 |
| ·Terministic Screen and News Discourse as Dialectical Duality | 第140-149页 |
| ·Rhetorical Construction of News Discourse through Terministic Screen | 第141-147页 |
| ·Terministic Screen Developed through News Discourse | 第147-149页 |
| ·Polysemy and Logomachy in News Discourse | 第149-153页 |
| ·Polysemy in News Discourse | 第149-151页 |
| ·Logomachy in News Discourse | 第151-153页 |
| ·Summary | 第153-154页 |
| Chapter Six Rhetoric-Appraisal:Interpersonal Realization of Semogenesis | 第154-186页 |
| ·Introduction | 第154页 |
| ·Interpersonal Construction of Validity in News | 第154-159页 |
| ·Major Resources for Realizing Interpersonal Meaning | 第154-156页 |
| ·Tackling Statement: Deconstruction and Reconstruction | 第156-158页 |
| ·Transformation: Nominalization and Passivization | 第158-159页 |
| ·Rhetoric-Appraisal Mechanism in News Discourse | 第159-175页 |
| ·ENGAGEMENT in the APPRAISAL Theory | 第159-161页 |
| ·Attribution Realized in Direct Speech | 第161-175页 |
| ·Popular Myth of Direct Speech | 第161-163页 |
| ·Direct Speech as Rhetorical Strategy | 第163-166页 |
| ·Direct Speech as Appraisal Device | 第166-167页 |
| ·Rhetoric-Appraisal Mechanism of Direct Speech | 第167-175页 |
| ·Appraisal Meaning Realized on the Clause Level | 第169-173页 |
| ·Appraisal Meaning Accumulated on the Discourse Level | 第173-175页 |
| ·Objectivity as Institutional Ethos | 第175-180页 |
| ·Objectivity Revisited | 第176-178页 |
| ·Objectivity Guaranteeing Institutional Ethos | 第178-180页 |
| ·The Prism of Objectivity, Appraisal and Identification | 第180-185页 |
| ·Appraisal and Identification as Means and Goal | 第180-181页 |
| ·Identification: The Way to Ideological Alignment and Social Cohesion | 第181-185页 |
| ·Identification through Recurrent Naming in Mass-Mediation | 第183页 |
| ·Identification through Narrative Perspective | 第183-185页 |
| ·Summary | 第185-186页 |
| Chapter Seven Coherence as Metaphor and Mystery:Textual Realization of Semogenesis | 第186-217页 |
| ·Introduction | 第186页 |
| ·Textual Realization of Rhetorical Construction | 第186-191页 |
| ·Characteristics of and Paradoxes in Information Structuring in News Text | 第188-191页 |
| ·Three Characteristics of Information Organizing in News Text | 第188-189页 |
| ·Four Dilemmas in Information Patterning in News Text | 第189-191页 |
| ·Toward A Multi-Dimensional Mode of Informational Coherence | 第191-208页 |
| ·Informational Coherence in the “Communication-Cognition”Dimension | 第193-200页 |
| ·Relative Self-Sufficiency of Information Package | 第193-196页 |
| ·Relative Self-Sufficiency of Information Package on the Lexico-Grammatical Plane | 第194-195页 |
| ·Relative Self-Sufficiency of Information Package on the Syntactic Plane | 第195-196页 |
| ·Logic Between and Among Information Packages | 第196-200页 |
| ·Local Coherence: Logic Between Information Packages | 第196-197页 |
| ·Global Coherence: Logic Among Information Packages | 第197-200页 |
| ·Information Coherence in the “Epistemology-Axiology” Dimension | 第200-208页 |
| ·New Information Versus Old Information | 第202-203页 |
| ·Foregrounded Information Versus Backgrounded Information | 第203-205页 |
| ·Explicated Information Versus Implicated Information | 第205-206页 |
| ·Acquired Information Versus Unknown Information | 第206-208页 |
| ·Collaboration of two dimensions of Coherence to Facilitate Logology | 第208-216页 |
| ·Informational Coherence as Metaphor | 第209-213页 |
| ·Vehicle: Informational Coherence in the “Communication-Cognition”Dimension | 第210-211页 |
| ·Tenor: Informational Coherence in the “Epistemology-Axiology”Dimension | 第211页 |
| ·The Metaphor of Informational Coherence to Facilitate Logology | 第211-213页 |
| ·Informational Coherence as Mystery | 第213-216页 |
| ·Coherence as a Mythological Construct | 第213-215页 |
| ·The Mystery of Informational Coherence to Facilitate Logology | 第215-216页 |
| ·Summary | 第216-217页 |
| Chapter Eight Conclusion | 第217-228页 |
| ·Introduction | 第217页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第217-221页 |
| ·News Discourse as a Motivated, Interested Persuasive Text | 第217-219页 |
| ·News Discourse as the Maintaining and Molding Force of Mainstream Rhetorical Paradigm | 第219-220页 |
| ·News Discourse Operating in a Systemic-Functional Rhetoric | 第220-221页 |
| ·Theoretical, Strategic and Pedagogical Contributions of the Study | 第221-225页 |
| ·Paradigm Shift in Meaning as Rhetorically Constructed | 第222-223页 |
| ·Strategic Significance in Guiding News Production and Dissemination | 第223-224页 |
| ·Pedagogical Insight for News Reading, News Writing and News Editing-Translating | 第224-225页 |
| ·Recommendations for Further Research | 第225-228页 |
| ·Corpus-Based Study of Rhetorical Construction of News Discourse | 第226页 |
| ·News Discourse in Receptive Rhetoric | 第226-228页 |
| Bibliography | 第228-240页 |
