| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10-11页 |
| List of Tables | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| ·Research background | 第12-13页 |
| ·Rationale and research questions of the present study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Overview of the methodology and data collection | 第14-15页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第17-30页 |
| ·A brief historical review of metaphor studies | 第17-18页 |
| ·Classical theories on metaphor | 第17-18页 |
| ·Cognitive view of metaphor | 第18-19页 |
| ·The systemic-functional approach to grammatical metaphor | 第19-28页 |
| ·Halliday's elucidations on the theory of GM | 第19-24页 |
| ·Other scholar's contributions to GM | 第24-28页 |
| ·Problems remain to be tackled | 第28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Understanding of Grammatical Metaphor | 第30-53页 |
| ·Important concepts relevant to GM | 第30-34页 |
| ·The multi-levels of language and realization | 第30-31页 |
| ·Congruent and metaphorical realizations | 第31-33页 |
| ·Meta-functions of language | 第33-34页 |
| ·Halliday's grammatical metaphor | 第34-51页 |
| ·Classification of grammatical metaphor | 第34-44页 |
| ·Ideational grammatical metaphor | 第34-39页 |
| ·Interpersonal grammatical metaphor | 第39-44页 |
| ·Metaphors of mood and its realization | 第39-41页 |
| ·Metaphors of modality and its realization | 第41-44页 |
| ·A further development of grammatical metaphor | 第44-51页 |
| ·Summary | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter 4 Data-based Analysis of English Newspaper Editorials | 第53-76页 |
| ·Identification of grammatical metaphors | 第53-54页 |
| ·Data collection | 第54页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第54-74页 |
| ·Statistical analysis of ideational GM in sample editorials | 第56-72页 |
| ·Rank shifts of ideational grammatical metaphor | 第60-64页 |
| ·Rank shifting caused by Prepositionalization | 第63页 |
| ·Rank shifting caused by Verbalization | 第63页 |
| ·Rank shifting caused by Adjectivation | 第63-64页 |
| ·Rank shifting caused by Nominalization | 第64页 |
| ·Nominalization as the major form of ideational grammatical metaphor | 第64-72页 |
| ·The ideational metafunction of Nominalization | 第66-67页 |
| ·The interpersonal metafunction of Nominalization | 第67-69页 |
| ·The textual metafunction of Nominalization | 第69-72页 |
| ·Analysis of interpersonal grammatical metaphor in sample editorials | 第72-74页 |
| ·Metaphors of modality in English newspaper editorials | 第73-74页 |
| ·Summary | 第74-76页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第76-80页 |
| ·Summary of the findings | 第76-77页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第77-78页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study | 第78-79页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第79-80页 |
| References | 第80-82页 |
| Appendix A | 第82-83页 |
| Appendix B | 第83-84页 |
