摘要
Abstract
Contents
List of Tables
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Research Significance
1.3 Research Objectives
1.4 Research Methodology
1.5 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Views on Grammatical Metaphor
2.1.1 Studies on Grammatical Metaphor in Western Countries
2.1.2 Studies on Grammatical Metaphor in China
2.2 Overview of the Function of Persuasion
2.3 Overview of Advertising Discourse Analysis
Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework
3.1 Theory of Grammatical Metaphor
3.1.1 Ideational Grammatical Metaphor
3.1.2 Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor
3.1.3 Textual Grammatical Metaphor
3.2 Fairclough’s Three-dimensional Model
Chapter 4 Grammatical Metaphors and Their Hidden Persuasive Appeal in Presidential Campaign Commercials
4.1 Data Collection and Analysis
4.2 Ideational Grammatical Metaphors in Presidential Campaign Commercials
4.2.1 Transitivity Grammatical Metaphor
4.2.2 Nominalization
4.3 Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphors in Presidential Campaign Commercials
4.3.1 Metaphors of Modality
4.3.2 Metaphors o fMood
4.4 Textual Grammatical Metaphors in Presidential Campaign Commercials
4.4.1 Meta-message Relation
4.4.2 Text Rererence
4.4.3 Internal Conjunction
4.4.4 Negotiating Texture
4.5 Hidden Persuasive Appeal in Grammatical Metaphors of Presidential Campaign Commercials
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Limitation of the Thesis
5.3 Suggestions for Further Studies
References
Appendix
Acknowledgments
声明