声明
摘要
Abstract
Contents
Chapter One Introduction
1．1 Research Background
1．2 Research Purpose and Significance
1．3 Data Collection and Analysis
1．4 Organization of this Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review and Theoretical Background
2．1 A General Review of News
2．2 Meaning of Political News
2．3 Previous Studies on Political News
2．3．1 Political News Researches Abroad
2．3．2 Political News Researches in China
2．4 Style
2．4．1 Definition of Style
2．4．2 Style as Foregrounding
2．5 Stylistics
2．6 Types of Foregrounding
2．6．1 Deviation
2．6．2 Over-regularity
Chapter Three Analysis of Foregrounding by Deviation in English Political News
3．1 Deviation at Graphological Level
3．1．1 Punctuations
3．1．2 Short Paragraphs
3．2 Deviation at Lexical Level
3．2．1 Abbreviations
3．2．2 Coinages
3．2．3 Loan Words
3．3 Deviation at Syntactic Level
3．3．1 Vividness Achieved by Active Voice
3．3．2 Preference for Simple Present Tense in Headlines
3．3．3 Preference for Simple Past Tense in Lead and Body
3．3．4 Ellipsis of Auxiliary Verbs in Headlines
3．4 Deviation at Semantic Level
3．4．1 Metonymy
3．4．2 Personification
3．5 Summary
Chapter Four Analysis of Foregrounding by Overregularity in English Political News
4．1 Overregularity at Phonological Level
4．1．1 Alliteration
4．1．2 Rhyme in Headlines
4．2 Overregularity at Lexical Level
4．3 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusion
5．1 Major Findings of this Study
5．2 Limitations of this Study and Suggestions for Future Study
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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