| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-12页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Background of the research | 第12-13页 |
| ·Significance of the research | 第13-14页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第14-16页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第16-22页 |
| ·Overview of Systemic-Functional multimodal discourse analysis | 第16-20页 |
| ·Transition from discourse analysis to multimodality | 第16-18页 |
| ·Definition of multimodality | 第18-19页 |
| ·Previous research of multimodal discourse analysis with Systemic-Functional approach | 第19-20页 |
| ·Overview of discourse analysis of movie posters | 第20-22页 |
| 3. Theoretical Framework | 第22-51页 |
| ·Visual Grammar | 第22-49页 |
| ·Representational meaning | 第23-36页 |
| ·Interactive meaning | 第36-44页 |
| ·Compositional meaning | 第44-49页 |
| ·Aproposed model for the present study | 第49-51页 |
| 4. Research Methodology | 第51-53页 |
| ·Research questions | 第51页 |
| ·Research method | 第51-52页 |
| ·Data collection and selection | 第52-53页 |
| 5. Results and Discussion | 第53-67页 |
| ·Analysis of the movie poster of Maid in Manhattan | 第53-59页 |
| ·Representational meaning | 第53-55页 |
| ·Interactive meaning | 第55-58页 |
| ·Compositional meaning | 第58-59页 |
| ·Analysis of the movie poster of Lust & Caution | 第59-66页 |
| ·Representational meaning | 第60-61页 |
| ·Interactive meaning | 第61-64页 |
| ·Compositional meaning | 第64-66页 |
| ·Summary | 第66-67页 |
| 6. Conclusion | 第67-70页 |
| ·Major findings of the research | 第67-68页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further study | 第68-70页 |
| Bibliography | 第70-76页 |
| Appendix | 第76页 |
