| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| ·Research Background | 第10页 |
| ·Purpose and Significance of the Research | 第10-11页 |
| ·Methodology of the Research | 第11-12页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第12页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第13-21页 |
| ·Introduction | 第13-14页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Multimodal Discourse Analysis | 第14-17页 |
| ·Studies on Multimodal Discourse Analysis Abroad | 第14-15页 |
| ·Studies on Multimodal Discourse Analysis at Home | 第15-17页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Cartoons | 第17-20页 |
| ·Studies on Cartoon Abroad | 第17-19页 |
| ·Studies on Cartoon at Home | 第19-20页 |
| ·Summary | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Frameworks of Earthquake-themed Cartoon Analysis | 第21-36页 |
| ·Sociosemiotics | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Metafunctional Theory of Halliday | 第23-25页 |
| ·The Visual Grammar of Kress and Van Leeuwen | 第25-35页 |
| ·The Metafunctions of Image | 第25-30页 |
| ·The Representational Meaning of Image | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Interactive Meaning of Image | 第27-29页 |
| ·The Compositional Meaning of Image | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Meaning of Color | 第30-33页 |
| ·The Communicative Functions of Color | 第30-32页 |
| ·Six Features of Color | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Modality Meaning of Image | 第33-35页 |
| ·A Proposed Framework for Analyzing Cartoons | 第35-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36页 |
| Chapter 4 A Comparative Multimodal Discourse Analysis of China Wenchuan and Japan “311” Earthquake-themed Cartoons | 第36-50页 |
| ·Introduction | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Metafunctions of the Earthquake-themed Cartoons | 第37-48页 |
| ·The Metafunctions of China Wenchuan Earthquake-themed Cartoons | 第37-42页 |
| ·The Representational Meaning | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Interactive Meaning | 第38-40页 |
| ·The Compositional Meaning | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Metafunctions of Japan “311” Earthquake-themed Cartoons | 第42-46页 |
| ·The Representational Meaning | 第42页 |
| ·The Interactive Meaning | 第42-45页 |
| ·The Compositional Meaning | 第45-46页 |
| ·Comparison and Result | 第46-48页 |
| ·A Contrastive Color Analysis of China Wenchuan and Japan “311” Earthquake-themed Cartoons | 第48-50页 |
| ·A Color Analysis of China Wenchuan Earthquake-themed Cartoon | 第48-49页 |
| ·A Color Analysis of Japan “311” Earthquake-themed Cartoon | 第49页 |
| ·Comparison and Result | 第49-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50页 |
| Chapter 5 The Analysis of the Social Background of China Wenchuan and Japan “311” Earthquake-themed Cartoons | 第50-53页 |
| ·Introduction | 第50-51页 |
| ·The Social Background of a China Wenchuan Earthquake-themed Cartoon . | 第51页 |
| ·The Social Background of a Japan “311” Earthquake-themed Cartoon | 第51-52页 |
| ·Comparison and Result | 第52-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第53-56页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Research | 第53-54页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further research | 第54-56页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第56-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-60页 |
| Appendix China Wenchuan Earthquake-themed Cartoons and Japan “311” Earthquake-themed Cartoons as Examples in this Thesis | 第60页 |
