| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第15-32页 |
| ·A Brief Account of the History of the Study of Metaphor | 第15-17页 |
| ·Early Studies on the Metaphorical Nature of Grammar | 第17-19页 |
| ·The Beginning of Conscious Studies on Grammatical Metaphor | 第19-20页 |
| ·A Comparison between Grammatical Metaphor (GM) and Lexical Metaphor (LM) | 第20-27页 |
| ·The Theoretical Foundation of GM | 第20-22页 |
| ·Complementarities between the Theory of GM and That of LM | 第22-27页 |
| ·Contributions of the Theory of GM | 第22-25页 |
| ·Complementarities of the Theory of LM to That of GM | 第25-27页 |
| ·News Discourse | 第27-31页 |
| ·Features of News Discourse | 第28-30页 |
| ·Previous Studies on News Discourse | 第30-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-32页 |
| Chapter Two A Systemic-Functional Approach to GM | 第32-44页 |
| ·Halliday and the Grammatical Metaphor Theory | 第32-36页 |
| ·Halliday’s Initial Treatment of GM | 第32-33页 |
| ·Halliday’s New Idea of GM | 第33-36页 |
| ·Previous Studies Done on GM | 第36-40页 |
| ·Ravelli’s Exploration of GM | 第36页 |
| ·Martin’s View of GM | 第36-37页 |
| ·Matthiessen’s Position on GM | 第37-38页 |
| ·Goatly and His Understanding of Grammatical Metaphor | 第38-39页 |
| ·Thompson and Grammatical Metaphor | 第39-40页 |
| ·Studies Made by Some Chinese Scholars on GM. | 第40-44页 |
| ·Hu zhuanglin’s Insightful View of GM | 第41页 |
| ·Zhu Yongsheng and Yan Shiqing’s Ideas on GM | 第41-42页 |
| ·Fan Wenfan’s Contribution to the Study of GM | 第42-44页 |
| Chapter Three Data-based Contrastive Analyses | 第44-53页 |
| ·Data Collection and Procedure | 第44页 |
| ·Analyses of Grammatical Metaphor in both English and Chinese News Discourse | 第44-53页 |
| ·Similarities of Grammatical Metaphor in English and Chinese News Discourse | 第47-50页 |
| ·The Differences of Grammatical Metaphor in News Discourse of the Two Languages | 第50-52页 |
| ·Comparison with Grammatical Metaphor in Scientific Discourse | 第52-53页 |
| Chapter Four Findings and Implications | 第53-73页 |
| ·Findings of Data Analyses: Demonstration of GM’s Functions | 第53-69页 |
| ·Referential Function | 第53-57页 |
| ·Expanding Function | 第57-60页 |
| ·Distilling Function | 第60-62页 |
| ·Discursive Function | 第62-65页 |
| ·Objectifying Function | 第65-68页 |
| ·Optimizing Function | 第68-69页 |
| ·Reasons of These Differences | 第69-70页 |
| ·Cultural Difference | 第69-70页 |
| ·Linguistic Difference | 第70页 |
| ·Implications of the Study | 第70-73页 |
| Conclusion | 第73-76页 |
| Bibliography | 第76-80页 |
| Appendices | 第80-95页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第95-96页 |
| 论文作者在学期间发表的论文 | 第96页 |
