| Acknowledgements | 第1-10页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第10-12页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第15-26页 |
| ·A brief historical review of metaphor study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Some early observations on the metaphorical nature of grammar | 第16-19页 |
| ·Systemic-functionalists' study on GM | 第19-20页 |
| ·A comparison between GM&LM | 第20-25页 |
| ·Contributions of the Theory of GM | 第20-23页 |
| ·Complementarity of the Theory of LM to that of GM | 第23-25页 |
| ·Summary | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter 2 A Literature Review of Grammatical Metaphor Theory | 第26-49页 |
| ·The Systemic-Functional study on GM | 第26-31页 |
| ·Halliday's initial approach to Theory of GM | 第26-27页 |
| ·Ravelli's exploration of GM | 第27-28页 |
| ·Martin's study on GM | 第28页 |
| ·Matthiessen's position on GM | 第28-29页 |
| ·Goatly's view of GM | 第29-30页 |
| ·Comments on the studies done on GM | 第30-31页 |
| ·Definition of GM | 第31-35页 |
| ·Congruent and incongruent realizations | 第31-33页 |
| ·The Concept of domains in the congnitive framework | 第33页 |
| ·Ranks of domains under the Systemic-Functional framework | 第33-34页 |
| ·A Definition of GM | 第34-35页 |
| ·Halliday's Initial Classification of GM | 第35-38页 |
| ·Metafunctions of GM | 第35-36页 |
| ·Types of GM | 第36-38页 |
| ·Halliday's reclassifications of GM | 第38-43页 |
| ·Chinese scholars' contributions to the development of GM study | 第43-47页 |
| ·Fan's Model of GM in Selection of Transitivity Functions | 第43-45页 |
| ·Prototype and GM in sequence of Group-phrase Classes | 第45-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter 3 Application of GM in news reports | 第49-56页 |
| ·A general review of application of theory of GM | 第49-51页 |
| ·General features of news reports | 第51-54页 |
| ·Previous Studies of GM on News Reports | 第54-55页 |
| ·Summary | 第55-56页 |
| Chapter 4 Data-based contrastive study of ideational GM in English and Chinese news reports | 第56-81页 |
| ·Contrastive study of 13 types of Ideational GM in English and Chinese news reports | 第56-63页 |
| ·Data collection and analysis procedures | 第56-63页 |
| ·Results and findings | 第63页 |
| ·Contrastive study of nominalization of Ideational GM in English and Chinese news reports | 第63-79页 |
| ·General idea of nominalization | 第63-64页 |
| ·Contrastive study of nominalization structure between English and Chinese | 第64-66页 |
| ·Contrastive study of the type of nominalization structure between English and Chinese | 第64-65页 |
| ·Contrastive study of the headword of nominalization structure between English and Chinese | 第65-66页 |
| ·Contrastive study of function of nominalization between English and Chinese | 第66-79页 |
| ·Contrastive study of referring function of nominalization between English and Chinese | 第66-68页 |
| ·Contrastive study of expanding function of nominalization between English and Chinese | 第68-72页 |
| ·Contrastive study of condensing function of nominalization between English and Chinese | 第72-73页 |
| ·Contrastive study of discursive function of nominalization between English and Chinese | 第73-76页 |
| ·Contrastive study of ideological function of nominalization between English and Chinese | 第76-79页 |
| ·Results and findings | 第79页 |
| ·Summary | 第79-81页 |
| Chapter 5 Data-based contrastive study of Interpersonal GM in English and Chinese news reports | 第81-96页 |
| ·Data-based contrastive study of Metaphor of Modality in English and Chinese news reports | 第81-94页 |
| ·A brief account of the system of modality and Metaphor of Modality | 第81-86页 |
| ·The relations of modality orientations to modal expressions | 第86-88页 |
| ·Data collection and analysis procedures | 第88-93页 |
| ·Explicit subjective orientation | 第89-91页 |
| ·Explicit objective orientation | 第91-93页 |
| ·Results and findings | 第93-94页 |
| ·Summary | 第94-96页 |
| Chapter6 Conclusions | 第96-100页 |
| ·Summary and conclusions | 第96-98页 |
| ·Significance of the thesis | 第98-99页 |
| ·Limitation of the thesis | 第99-100页 |
| Bibliography | 第100-103页 |
