| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第9-10页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Political speech and critical discourse analysis (CDA) | 第13-14页 |
| ·Underling rationale for the research | 第14-15页 |
| ·Layout of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-31页 |
| ·Review of CDA | 第17-19页 |
| ·General statement of CDA | 第17-18页 |
| ·Theoretical foundation and principles of CDA | 第18-19页 |
| ·Review of previous study on critical analysis of political discourse | 第19-21页 |
| ·Critical linguistics by Fowler and Kress | 第19页 |
| ·Social and cognitive mechanism by Van Dijk | 第19-20页 |
| ·Three-dimensional conception by Fairclough | 第20-21页 |
| ·Review of relevant study in China | 第21-23页 |
| ·Introduction of CDA to China | 第21页 |
| ·Systematic development and application of CDA | 第21-23页 |
| ·Theoretical framework for present study | 第23-31页 |
| ·Halliday's functional grammar | 第23-28页 |
| ·The ideational metafunction | 第24-27页 |
| ·The interpersonal metafunction | 第27-28页 |
| ·The textual metafunction | 第28页 |
| ·Fairclough's three-dimensional framework | 第28-31页 |
| ·Description | 第29页 |
| ·Interpretation | 第29页 |
| ·Explanation | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Three A critical discourse analysis of Bush's speeches concerning 9.11 attacks | 第31-54页 |
| ·Data collection | 第31-32页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第32-54页 |
| ·Description | 第32-46页 |
| ·Ideational metafunction | 第32-38页 |
| ·Interpersonal metafunction | 第38-45页 |
| ·Textual meatafunction | 第45-46页 |
| ·Interpretation | 第46-49页 |
| ·What's going on | 第47页 |
| ·Who's involved and in what relations | 第47-49页 |
| ·What's the role of language in what's going on | 第49页 |
| ·Explanation | 第49-54页 |
| ·Social-historical context | 第50-52页 |
| ·Power relation in discourse | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter Four Interpretation and Discussion | 第54-59页 |
| ·Dialectical relationship between discourse and ideology | 第54-55页 |
| ·Multi-dimensional approaches of CDA | 第55-56页 |
| ·Developing critical language awareness | 第56-59页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第59-62页 |
| ·Summary of the research | 第59-60页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study | 第60-61页 |
| ·Prospects for further research | 第61-62页 |
| References | 第62-65页 |
| Appendix | 第65-74页 |
| 个人简历 | 第74页 |
