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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background of the research
1.2 Significance of the research
1.3 Research questions and methodology
1.4 A glimpse of Christmas carols and Christmas songs
1.5 Layout of the thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Studies on lyrics
2.1.1 Non-linguistic studies on lyrics
2.1.2 Linguistic studies on lyrics
2.2 Studies on Christmas carols and Christmas songs
2.3 Studies on discourse analysis
2.4 Brief evaluation
Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework
3.1 An overview of Systemic Functional Grammar
3.2 Core ideas of Systemic Functional Grammar
3.2.1 Metafunctional perspective
3.2.2 Systematic perspective
3.2.3 Hierarchical perspective
3.2.4 Functional perspective
3.2.5 Contextual perspective
3.2.6 Approximative or probabilistic perspective
3.3 The three metafunctions
3.3.1 The experiential metafunction
3.3.2 The interpersonal metafunction
3.3.3 The textual metafunction
3.4 Clause types and scope of the data analysis
3.4.1 Major clause
3.4.2 Minor clause
3.4.3 Independent clause and dependent clause
3.4.4 Scope of the data analysis
Chapter 4 Anaalysis of metafunctions of in the selected corpus
4.1 Selection of corpus
4.2 Methodology
4.3 Data analysis
4.3.1 Mood analysis
4.3.2 Transitivity analysis
4.3.3 Theme analysis
4.4 Summary
Chapter 5 Conclusion
References
Acknowledgements
