声明
Acknowledgements
Abstract
摘要
Contents
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background Information of the News Report
1.2 Aims of The Study
1.3 Significance of the Present Study
1.3.1 Theoretical Significance of the Present Study
1.3.2 Realistic Significance of This Study
1.4 Data Collection and Methodology
1.5 Structure of The Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Social Semiotic Approach to Multimodal Discourse
2.2.1 Discourse
2.2.2 Multimodal Discourse
2.2.3 Contributions of Systemic Functional Theory to MDA
2.2.4 Visual Grammar
2.2.5 Studies on Inter-semiotic Relations
2.3 The Review of News Analysis
2.4 Summary
Chapter Three An Analytical Framework
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Framework
3.2.1 Fairclough’s Operational Strategy
3.3 Halliday’s Systemic-Funcitonal Grammar
3.3.1The Ideational Metafunction
3.3.2 Interpersonal Metafunction
3.3.3 The Textual Metafunction
3.4 Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Grammar
3.4.1 Representational Meaning
3.4.2 Interactive Meaning
3.4.3 Compositional Meaning
3.5 Summary
Chapter Four Data Analysis
4.1 Analysis of News Sample One
4.1.1 Analysis of the Photo in the News Sample One
4.1.2 Analysis of Written Text in News Sample One
4.1.3 Visual-verbal Relationship
4.2 Analysis of News Sample Two
4.2.1 Analysis of the Photo
4.2.2 Analysis of the Written Text
4.2.3 Visual-verbal Relationship
4.3 Analysis of News Sample Three
4.3.1 Analysis of the Photo
4.3.2 Analysis of the Verbal Text
4.3.3 Visual-verbal Relationship
4.4 Summary of the Chapter
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1 A Summary of the Major Findings
5.2 Limitation of the Study
Bibliography
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