| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·New Year Editorials in People’s Daily and the three New Year Editorials | 第9-10页 |
| ·The theories and methodologies of the study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Research questions and aims of the study | 第11页 |
| ·The structure of the thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第13-27页 |
| ·Theoretical background of the study | 第13-22页 |
| ·Discourse | 第13-16页 |
| ·What is discourse | 第13-14页 |
| ·Discourse and social practice | 第14-16页 |
| ·Constitutive power of discourse | 第16页 |
| ·Identity | 第16-20页 |
| ·Identity from a philosophical and sociological perspective | 第17-18页 |
| ·Identity from a social-semiotic perspective | 第18-19页 |
| ·Identity from a CDA perspective | 第19-20页 |
| ·Discourse and social change | 第20-22页 |
| ·Previous study of constitutive power of discourse | 第22-24页 |
| ·Previous study of Editorials of People’s Daily | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology and Analytical Framework | 第27-33页 |
| ·Pronoun | 第27-29页 |
| ·Modality | 第29-31页 |
| ·Analytical framework for the present study | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter 4 Discursive Construction of the Editorial department’s Identity | 第33-61页 |
| ·Discourse analysis of the Three New Year Editorials | 第33-53页 |
| ·Pronoun | 第33-40页 |
| ·“We” in the 1954 New Year Editorial | 第33-35页 |
| ·“We” in the 1968 New Year Editorial | 第35-37页 |
| ·“We” in the 2005 New Year Editorial | 第37-40页 |
| ·Modality | 第40-51页 |
| ·Statistics and analysis of the total relational modality in each editorial | 第40-44页 |
| ·Statistics and analysis of single relational modality | 第44-51页 |
| ·Macro-structure | 第51-53页 |
| ·Identity change constructed from the Three New Year Editorials | 第53-58页 |
| ·The change of power relations between the editorial department and the public | 第53-56页 |
| ·The change of discourse function | 第56-57页 |
| ·The change of identity of the editorial department | 第57-58页 |
| ·Discussion of reasons for the change in the editorial department’s identity | 第58-61页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第61-64页 |
| ·Findings and contributions of the study | 第61-63页 |
| ·Limitations and further research of the study | 第63-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-69页 |
| Appendix 1 New Year Editorial in 1954 | 第69-74页 |
| Appendix 2 New Year Editorial in 1968 | 第74-80页 |
| Appendix 3 New Year Editorial in 2005 | 第80-82页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第82-83页 |
| 攻读硕士期间所发表的论文 | 第83-84页 |
