| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·General Introduction | 第9-10页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第10-11页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第13-22页 |
| ·Introduction | 第13页 |
| ·Overview of Multimodal Discourse Analysis(MDA) | 第13-18页 |
| ·Definition of Multimodality | 第13-15页 |
| ·Definition of Multimodal Discourse Analysis | 第15-16页 |
| ·Development of Multimodality Research | 第16-18页 |
| ·Early Studies on Film Discourse | 第18-22页 |
| ·Studies on Film Language with Semiotic Approach | 第18-19页 |
| ·Framework of Film Discourse Analysis | 第19-22页 |
| Chapter 3 A Proposed Model for the Present Research | 第22-40页 |
| ·Theoretical Background for the Proposed Model | 第22-37页 |
| ·System-functional Linguistics | 第22-24页 |
| ·Multiliteracies-the Start of a New Theory | 第24-29页 |
| ·Visual Grammar | 第29-37页 |
| ·Summary | 第37页 |
| ·A Proposed Model for Analyzing the Film Titanic | 第37-38页 |
| ·Research Design | 第38-40页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第38-39页 |
| ·Research Methods | 第39-40页 |
| Chapter 4 Case Study: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Film Titanic with the Proposed Model | 第40-70页 |
| ·Introduction | 第40页 |
| ·The Metafuctions Presented by the Film Discourse Titanic | 第40-67页 |
| ·The Representational Meaning of the Film | 第40-48页 |
| ·The Interactive Meaning of the Film | 第48-64页 |
| ·The Compositional Meaning of the Film | 第64-67页 |
| ·The Multimodal Communicative Acts of the Film Discourse Titanic | 第67-70页 |
| ·Relationship of Different Modalities in the Film | 第67-69页 |
| ·Summary | 第69-70页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第70-72页 |
| ·Findings and Contributions of the Present Research | 第70-71页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for the Further Research | 第71-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-75页 |
