| ABSTRACT | 第4页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第7-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-16页 |
| 1.1 Research background | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 Research questions | 第13页 |
| 1.3 Research methodology and data collection | 第13-15页 |
| 1.3.1 Research methodology | 第13-14页 |
| 1.3.2 Data collection | 第14-15页 |
| 1.4 The organization of thesis | 第15-16页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第16-23页 |
| 2.1 A brief introduction to the Belt and Road Initiative | 第16-17页 |
| 2.2 Previous studies on the Belt and Road Initiative news reports | 第17-21页 |
| 2.2.1 From cross-cultural perspective | 第17-19页 |
| 2.2.2 From Positive Discourse Analysis perspective | 第19页 |
| 2.2.3 From Critical Discourse Analysis perspective | 第19-21页 |
| 2.3 Limitations of previous studies and originality of the present study | 第21-23页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第23-39页 |
| 3.1 An introduction to Construal Theory | 第23-27页 |
| 3.2 Key concepts of construal operations by Hart | 第27-39页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR A COGNITIVE CONSTRUAL STUDY OF “THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE” NEWS | 第39-63页 |
| 4.1 An analysis of BRI news from action-chain schema | 第39-50页 |
| 4.1.1 The asymmetrical action-chain schema in BRI news | 第40-43页 |
| 4.1.2 The reciprocal action-chain schema in BRI news | 第43-50页 |
| 4.2 An analysis of BRI news from Profiling | 第50-58页 |
| 4.2.1 Agentless passives in BRI news | 第50-54页 |
| 4.2.2 Nominalization in BRI news | 第54-58页 |
| 4.3 An analysis of BRI news from Scanning | 第58-63页 |
| 4.3.1 The sequential scanning in BRI news | 第59-61页 |
| 4.3.2 The summary scanning in BRI news | 第61-63页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第63-66页 |
| 5.1 Major findings of the study | 第63-64页 |
| 5.2 Theoretical and practical implications | 第64页 |
| 5.3 Limitations and suggestions for further studies | 第64-66页 |
| REFERENCES | 第66-72页 |
| APPENDIX | 第72-74页 |
