摘要 Abstract Acknowledgements Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Motivation of the Study
1.2 Objective and Significance
1.3 Data and Methodology
1.4 Layout of the Thesis Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 News Reportings
2.2 Previous Studies on News Reportings
2.2.1 Critical Discourse Analysis
2.2.2 Systemic Functional Analysis
2.2.3 Pragmatic Analysis
2.2.4 Stylistic Analysis
2.2.5 Cognitive Analysis
2.2.6 The Perspective of Communication Studies
2.3 Comments on Previous Studies
2.3.1 Achievements of Previous Studies
2.3.2 Gaps of Previous Studies
2.4 Summary Chapter Three Theoretical Framework
3.1 The Theory of Communicative Action
3.1.1 The Concept of Communicative Action
3.1.2 Lifeworld
3.1.2.1 The Subjective World
3.1.2.2 The Objective World
3.1.2.3 The Social World
3.1.3 Intersubjectivity
3.1.3.1 Intersubjectivity and Communicative Action
3.1.3.2 Intersubjectivity and Reception Theory
3.1.4 News Reportings and Communicative Actions
3.1.5 Review
3.2 Conceptual Metaphor Theory
3.2.1 Conceptual Metaphor
3.2.3 The Working Mechanism of Conceptual Metaphor
3.2.4 Features of Conceptual Metaphor
3.2.4.1 Pervasiveness
3.2.4.2 Systematicity
3.2.4.3 Cultural Coherence
3.2.5 Review
3.3 The News Reporting Model
3.3.1 The Rationale
3.3.2 The Working Mechanism of NRM
3.4 Summary Chapter Four Data Analysis
4.1 Corpora of the Study
4.1.1 Data Source
4.1.2 Data Collection
4.2 Conceptual Metaphors in Ebola News Reportings
4.2.1 Distribution of Conceptual Metaphors
4.2.2 Statistic Analysis of Dominant Conceptual Metaphors
4.3 Application of the News Reporting Model
4.3.1 War Metaphor
4.3.2 Human Being Metaphor
4.3.3 Journey Metaphor
4.4 Summary Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Implications
5.3 Suggestions for the Future Studies Bibliography Appendix 1 Chinese News Reportings Appendix 2 English News Reportings
