摘要 4-5 Abstract 5-6 Chapter One Introduction 9-13 1.1 Background of the Study 9-11 1.1.1 The Rhetorical Studies of Metaphor 9 1.1.2 The Semantic Studies of Metaphor 9-10 1.1.3 The Multidisciplinary Studies of Metaphor 10-11 1.2 Rationale of the Study 11-12 1.3 Organization of the Dissertation 12-13 Chapter Two Literature Review 13-27 2.1 Literature Review of Grammatical Metaphor 13-19 2.1.1 The Origin and Development of Grammatical Metaphor 13-14 2.1.2 Halliday’s Theory on Grammatical Metaphor 14-17 2.1.3 Other Scholars’ Studies of Grammatical Metaphor 17-19 2.2 The Studies of News Discourse 19-27 2.2.1 The Definition and Classification of News Discourse 20-21 2.2.2 News Discourse Analysis 21-23 2.2.3 Previous Study of Economic News Discourse 23-27 Chapter Three Theoretical Framework 27-37 3.1 Halliday’s Classification of Grammatical Metaphor 27-31 3.1.1 Ideational Metaphor 27-29 3.1.2 Interpersonal Metaphor 29-31 3.2 Realization of Grammatical Metaphor 31-37 3.2.1 Realization of Ideational Metaphor 31-35 3.2.2 Realization of Interpersonal Metaphor 35-37 Chapter Four Research Methodology 37-39 4.1 Research Questions 37 4.2 Source of the Corpus 37-38 4.3 Research Methods 38-39 Chapter Five Analysis of Grammatical Metaphors in Economic News Discourse 39-57 5.1 The Identification of Ideational and Interpersonal Metaphor 39-40 5.2 Statistics of Grammatical Metaphors in Economic News Discourse 40 5.3 Findings and Discussion of Ideational Metaphor 40-52 5.3.1 Analysis of Selection of Process Type 43-44 5.3.2 Analysis of Configuration of Transitivity Functions 44-48 5.3.3 Analysis of Sequence of Group-Phrase Classes 48-52 5.4 Findings and Discussion of Interpersonal Metaphor 52-57 5.4.1 Analysis of Modality Metaphor 54-55 5.4.2 Analysis of Mood Metaphor 55-57 Conclusion 57-59 Appendix 59-71 Appendix A Sample news 59-67 Appendix B Additional data 67-71 References 71-75 Publication 75-77 Acknowledgements 77 |