| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-10页 |
| LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES VIII | 第10-11页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅰ INTRODUCTION | 第11-20页 |
| ·General statement | 第11-12页 |
| ·American televised presidential debates | 第12-15页 |
| ·The format of American televised presidential debates | 第12-13页 |
| ·Features of American televised presidential debates | 第13-14页 |
| ·Language, politics and American presidential debates | 第14-15页 |
| ·Motivation of the study | 第15-17页 |
| ·Reasons for choosing presidential debates as analytical material | 第15-16页 |
| ·Reasons for adopting a systemic-functional grammar approach | 第16-17页 |
| ·Purpose of this study | 第17页 |
| ·Data and approach to data analysis | 第17-18页 |
| ·Research questions | 第18页 |
| ·Organization of the present thesis | 第18-19页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第19-20页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ LITERATURE REVIEW | 第20-32页 |
| ·Functional analysis | 第20-21页 |
| ·Content analysis | 第21-23页 |
| ·Problems unresolved by the previous researches | 第23-24页 |
| ·Analysis from perspective of interpersonal meaning | 第24-31页 |
| ·Different approaches to interpersonal meaning | 第25-30页 |
| ·Discourse analysis approach | 第25页 |
| ·Pragmatic approach | 第25-26页 |
| ·Sociolinguistic approach | 第26-27页 |
| ·Systemic functional approach | 第27页 |
| ·Development of interpersonal meaning in analyzing discourses | 第27-30页 |
| ·Application of interpersonal meaning to the study of presidential debates | 第30-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-32页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第32-49页 |
| ·Establishment of the theoretical framework for the present study | 第32-36页 |
| ·The main theoretical framework | 第32-33页 |
| ·The assistant analytical tool | 第33-34页 |
| ·The modified framework for the present study | 第34-36页 |
| ·Realizations of Interpersonal meaning | 第36-48页 |
| ·Person system | 第36-39页 |
| ·Personal pronouns | 第37-38页 |
| ·Vocatives | 第38-39页 |
| ·Mood | 第39-43页 |
| ·Speech roles and functions | 第39-40页 |
| ·Typical mood structures | 第40-42页 |
| ·Subject and finite | 第42-43页 |
| ·Modality | 第43-48页 |
| ·Type of modality | 第44页 |
| ·Modality to polarity and mood | 第44-45页 |
| ·Orientation of modality | 第45-47页 |
| ·Values of modality | 第47-48页 |
| ·Summary | 第48-49页 |
| CHAPTER IV REALIZATIONS OF INTERPERSONAL MEANING IN AMERICAN TELEVISED PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES | 第49-116页 |
| ·An analysis of person system in American televised presidential debates | 第49-72页 |
| ·Results of the research | 第49-53页 |
| ·Interpersonal meaning of personal pronouns in presidential debates | 第53-65页 |
| ·The first person pronouns | 第53-60页 |
| ·The second person pronouns | 第60-63页 |
| ·The third person pronouns | 第63-65页 |
| ·Vocatives | 第65-69页 |
| ·Names | 第65-67页 |
| ·Titles | 第67-68页 |
| ·Descriptors | 第68-69页 |
| ·Special address forms referring to the opponents | 第69-72页 |
| ·Summary | 第72页 |
| ·An analysis of mood system in American televised presidential debates | 第72-92页 |
| ·Results of the research | 第73-75页 |
| ·Interpersonal meaning of mood system in presidential debates | 第75-91页 |
| ·Speech roles in the presidential debates | 第75-83页 |
| ·Information-giving | 第76-79页 |
| ·Goods-&-service giving | 第79-81页 |
| ·Actions-demanding | 第81-83页 |
| ·Interpersonal meaning of tense in presidential debates | 第83-91页 |
| ·Tenses | 第83-86页 |
| ·Tense shift | 第86-91页 |
| ·Summary | 第91-92页 |
| ·An analysis of modality in American televised presidential debates | 第92-116页 |
| ·Results of this research | 第92-96页 |
| ·Interpersonal meaning of modality in presidential debates | 第96-114页 |
| ·Modal auxiliaries | 第97-104页 |
| ·Modal adjuncts | 第104-108页 |
| ·Modal metaphors | 第108-110页 |
| ·Other realizations of modality in presidential debates | 第110-114页 |
| ·Summary | 第114-116页 |
| CHAPTERV CONCLUSION | 第116-121页 |
| ·Findings of the present study | 第116-119页 |
| ·Relationship with the opponent | 第116-117页 |
| ·Relationship with the moderator | 第117-118页 |
| ·Relationship with the audience (voters) | 第118-119页 |
| ·Implication of the present study | 第119-120页 |
| ·Limitation of the present study and suggestions for further study | 第120-121页 |
| REFERENCES | 第121-125页 |
