| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第5-8页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第8-12页 |
| Figures and Tables | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-19页 |
| ·The Object of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Purpose of the Study | 第15页 |
| ·The Significance of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Hypotheses | 第16页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第16-17页 |
| ·Methodology and Data Collection | 第17页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review of News Studies and An Overview of News Reports | 第19-33页 |
| ·Introduction | 第19页 |
| ·News Studies in Western Countries | 第19-22页 |
| ·News Studies in China | 第22-29页 |
| ·News Studies Based on Stylistics | 第22-24页 |
| ·News Studies Based on Rhetoric and Cognitive Pragmatics | 第24-26页 |
| ·News Studies Based on Discourse Analysis | 第26-27页 |
| ·News Studies Based on Systemic Functional linguistics | 第27-28页 |
| ·News Studies Based on Appraisal Theory | 第28-29页 |
| ·An Overview of News Reports | 第29-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第33-45页 |
| ·Introduction | 第33-34页 |
| ·Theoretical Foundation | 第34-44页 |
| ·Attitude | 第34-42页 |
| ·Affect | 第35-41页 |
| ·Positive vs. Negative Affect | 第36页 |
| ·Behavioural Surge vs. Mental Process/State | 第36页 |
| ·Directed vs. Undirected | 第36-37页 |
| ·Low vs. High | 第37页 |
| ·Realis vs. Irrealis | 第37-38页 |
| ·Un/happiness, In/security and Dis/satisfaction | 第38-41页 |
| ·Judgement | 第41页 |
| ·Appreciation | 第41-42页 |
| ·Engagement | 第42页 |
| ·Graduation | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Voices of News Reports | 第43-44页 |
| ·Summary | 第44-45页 |
| Chapter Four An Analysis of Affectual Resources in the Feature Story about Earthquake | 第45-87页 |
| ·Introduction | 第45页 |
| ·Social Background | 第45-47页 |
| ·An Analysis of Affectual Resources in the Feature Story | 第47-75页 |
| ·Profile One: Funeral follows wedding for heroic village teacher | 第47-50页 |
| ·Profile Two: Sacrificing his son to save others | 第50-55页 |
| ·Profile Three: Survival Stories | 第55-60页 |
| ·WHAT-feature One: Hard-hit Hanwang picks up the pieces | 第60-68页 |
| ·WHAT-feature Two: Cries for help among dead | 第68-72页 |
| ·WHAT-feature Three: A lesson by students | 第72-75页 |
| ·An Analysis of the Data | 第75-85页 |
| ·Summary | 第85-87页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第87-90页 |
| ·A Summary of the Major Research Findings | 第87-88页 |
| ·Implications | 第88-89页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第89-90页 |
| Bibliography | 第90-93页 |
