声明
Acknowledgments
Abstract
摘要
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research background
1.2 Research foci of the thesis
1.3 Overall study aim of this thesis
1.4 The organization of this thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 The origin of the theoretical integration
2.2 CMT and CDA vs. BT and CDA
2.3 EP and CDA
2.4 Researches on migrant workers
Chapter Three Methodology and Introduction to Corpus
3.1 Corpus application in this study
3.2 A brief introduction to China Daily
3.3 An introduction to the corpus of migrant workers in this study
3.3.1 Background introduction and data collection
3.3.2 Data classification
3.3.3 Macro-level data analysis:multiple identities of migrant workers in China Daily
Chapter Four Analyzing Metaphors of Cities and Migrant workers
4.1 Analyzing Metaphors of Cities
4.1.1 Introduction
4.1.2 CONTAINER metaphors prompted by prepositions
4.1.3 CONTAINER metaphors and discursive strategies
4.2 Analyzing Metaphors of Migrant Workers
4.2.1 Introduction
4.2.2 WAR metaphors
4.2.3 WATER metaphors
4.3 Summary
Chapter Five Analyzing Discursive Strategies
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Analyzing referential strategies
5.3 Analyzing predicational strategies
5.4 Analyzing legitimizing strategies
Chapter Six Conclusion
6.1 Summary of this thesis
6.2 Limitations of this study and suggestions for future study
References
Appendices
Appendix 1:Websites of language materials employed in this thesis
Chapter 4
Chapter 5