声明
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
摘要
ABSTRACT
CONTENTS
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
1．1 Research Motivation
1．2 Research Purpose
1．3 Research Significance
1．4 Structure of Thesis
Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW
2．1 Political Discourse
2．1．1 Discourse
2．1．2 Definitions and functions of political discourse
2．1．3 Previous researches on political discourse
2．2 Critical Discourse Analysis
2．2．1 Theoretical background of critical discourse analysis
2．2．2 Key notions in CDA
2．2．3 Previous research on CDA
2．4 Conceptual Metaphor
2．4．1 Metaphor research
2．4．2 Conceptual metaphor research
2．5 Conceptual Metaphor in Politics
2．5．1 Language and politics
2．5．2 Metaphor in politics
2．6 Contrastive Analysis
2．6．1 A brief introduction to contrastive analysis
2．6．2 Previous research on contrastive analysis in China
Chapter Three METHODOLOGY
3．1 Data Collection and Description
3．2 Method of This Contrastive Study
3．3 Research Framework
Chapter Four DATA ANALYSIS
4．1 Metaphors Identification
4．2 Conceptual Metaphors
4．2．1 Analysis of conceptual metaphors in American data
4．2．2 Analysis of conceptual metaphors in Chinese data
Chapter Five FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
5．1 Findings
5．1．1 Contrastive analysis
5．2 Discussion
5．2．1 Functions of the conceptual metaphors in data
5．2．2 Basis of the conceptual metaphors in data
Chapter Six CONCLUSION
6．1 Research Summary
6．2 Significance
6．3 Limitations
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