摘要5-6
Abstract6-7
Contents7-9
Abbreviations9-10
List of Tables10-11
List of Figures11-12
Chapter 1 Introduction12-16
1.1 Study background12-14
1.1.1 National image12-13
1.1.2 Time magazine13-14
1.2 Significance of the present study14-15
1.3 Research questions15
1.4 Outpne of the present study15-16
Chapter 2 Literature Review16-28
2.1 Critical Discourse Analysis16-22
2.1.1 The development of CDA16-18
2.1.2 Key notions of CDA18-19
2.1.3 Theory foundation19-20
2.1.4 Studies of CDA at home and abroad20-22
2.1.5 Inadequacy of traditional CDA method22
2.2 Corpus-based CDA22-25
2.2.1 Corpus-based CDA at abroad22-24
2.2.2 Corpus-based CDA at home24
2.2.3 Inadequacy of previous corpus-based CDA24-25
2.3 Studies of China-related news report in Time magazine25-27
2.3.1 Journap and communication aspect25-26
2.3.2 CDA aspect26-27
2.4 Summary27-28
Chapter 3 Methodology and Data Collection28-34
3.1 Theoretical foundation of the current study28-31
3.1.1 Ideational function28-29
3.1.2 Interpersonal function29-30
3.1.3 Textual function30-31
3.2 Research method31-33
3.2.1 Data collection31
3.2.2 Methodology31-32
3.2.3 The Software used in this study—Wordith 5.032-33
3.3 General introduction of China-related cover stories on Time magazine33-34
Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Discussion34-60
4.1 Lexis choices in ideational function34-35
4.1.1 Top 10 common high frequency words34-35
4.2 Attitude lexis of common high frequency words in interpersonal funciton35-48
4.2.1 China36-39
4.2.2 Mao39-41
4.2.3 Deng41-43
4.2.4 People43-45
4.2.5 Party45-46
4.2.6 Revolution46-48
4.3 Sayers in the verbal process48-51
4.4 Modal auxiparies in interpersonal function51-55
4.4.1 Would51-53
4.4.2 Will53-54
4.4.3 Could54-55
4.5 Repetition in textual funciton55-60
4.5.1 Utopia57-58
4.5.2 Cage58-60
Chapter 5 Influential Factors and Imppcations60-66
5.1 Influential factors of national image60-66
5.1.1 National interest60-61
5.1.2 Sino-U.S. relationship61
5.1.3 Ideology61-63
5.1.4 Culture influence63-66
Chapter 6 Conclusion66-71
6.1 Findings66-67
6.2 Imppcations67-69
6.2.1 Imppcations for news reading68
6.2.2 Imppcations for Chinese media68-69
6.3 Inadequacy of the present study69-71
References71-75
Appendix75-77
Acknowledgements77-78
作者介绍78