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1 Introduction
1.1. The Main Concern of News Reporting
1.2. Previous Studies
1.3. Methodology to Be Adopted
2 Theoretical Background
2.1. Language Function Proposed by Halliday
2.2. Foregrounding Theory
2.3. The Relationship Between Language Function and Foregrounding
3 Foregrounding In ENR
3.1. Levels of Language
3.2. Foregrounded Semantic Features of ENR
3.3. Major Foregrounding Devices in ENR
3.3.1. Declarative
3.3.2. Verbal Process and Communication Verb
3.3.3. Present Tense in Headline
3.3.4. Nominalization of Processes
3.3.5. Fronting of Time and Place Adverbial
3.3.6. Cliché
3.3.7. Coinage
3.3.8. Loanword
3.3.9. Multiple Premodifier
3.3.10. Omission
3.3.11. Acronym
4 Foregrounding and the Realization of Language Functions
4.1. Motivated Prominence
4.1.1. Context of Situation and Language
4.1.2. Prominence Motivated by Situational Factors of ENR
4.2. Functional Interpretation of Foregrounded Features of ENR Language
4.2.1. Ideational Representation
4.2.2. Interpersonal Representation
4.2.3. Textual Representation
5 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
