| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Rationales for the present research | 第12-13页 |
| ·Purpose of the present study | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Literature Review | 第16-22页 |
| ·Overview of MDA:From discourse analysis to multimodality | 第16-17页 |
| ·Definition of Multimodality | 第17-18页 |
| ·Previous researches on MDA abroad and at home | 第18-22页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Theoretical Foundations for the Present Study | 第22-28页 |
| ·Visual Grammar | 第22-25页 |
| ·Overview of VG framework | 第22-23页 |
| ·Overview of the representational meaning of images in VG | 第23-25页 |
| ·The SF-MDA approach for analyzing the ideational meaning of image | 第25-26页 |
| ·Relevant theories of text and images and of their relations | 第26-28页 |
| ·Barthes' foundational study of image-text relations | 第26页 |
| ·Halliday's theories related to image-text relations | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Representational Meaning of Image in the Samples | 第28-40页 |
| ·Narrative representations:designing social action | 第28-33页 |
| ·Action processes | 第29-30页 |
| ·Reactional processes | 第30-31页 |
| ·Speech process and mental process | 第31页 |
| ·Conversion processes | 第31-32页 |
| ·Circumstances | 第32-33页 |
| ·Conceptual representations | 第33-35页 |
| ·Classificational processes | 第33-34页 |
| ·Analytical process | 第34页 |
| ·Symbolical process | 第34-35页 |
| ·Color as a cross-functional system | 第35-38页 |
| ·Embedding | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Analysis of the Image-text Relations in the Samples | 第40-52页 |
| ·Status | 第40-42页 |
| ·Logico-semantic relations | 第42-45页 |
| ·Expansion | 第43-44页 |
| ·Projection | 第44-45页 |
| ·Equal-status and logico-semantics combined | 第45-49页 |
| ·Image and text independent | 第46-48页 |
| ·Image and text complementary | 第48-49页 |
| ·Some features to classify status relations and logico-semantic relations | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter Ⅵ Conclusion | 第52-56页 |
| ·Major findings of the present study | 第52-53页 |
| ·Major contributions of the present study | 第53-54页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further studies | 第54-56页 |
| Bibliography | 第56-58页 |
