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英文文摘
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
List of Tables
List of Figure
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
1.1 Need for the study
1.2 Structure of this Paper
1.3 Significance of the study
Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 History and Development of CDA
2.2 Three-Dimensional Modal
2.3 Corpus
2.4 Modality
2.5 Transitivity
Chapter Three RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Data Collection
3.2.1 0fficial Discourse
3.2.2 Process of Data Collection
3.3 Research Framework
Chapter Four RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Textual Analysis
4.1.1 Word Frequency Analysis
4.1.2 Concord Analysis
4.1.3 What“and” Implies
4.2 Discursive Practice Analysis
4.2.1 A Brief Introduction to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009
4.2.2 Modality Analysis
4.2.3 Transitivity Analysis
4.3 Social and Cultural Analysis
4.3.1 Collectivism and Individualism
4.3.2 Person-Nature Orientation
4.3.3 Different National Conditions
4.3.4 Different Sustainable Development Modes
4.3.5 An Extension of the Connotations for Sustainable Development in China
Chapter Five CONCLUSION
5.1 Summary of the Present Study
5.2 Research Limitations
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