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声明
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
1.1 General Statement
1.2 Rationale for the Present Study
1.2.1 Motivation of the present study
1.2.2 Need for the study
1.2.3 Research questions
1.3 Significance
1.4 Structure of the Thesis
Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Gender Studies in Magazine Advertisements
2.2 Critical Discourse Analysis and Its Application in Gender Studies in Advertisements
2.2.1 A brief review of previous studies on CDA
2.2.2 Gender studies in advertisements with CDA approach
Chapter Three RESEARCH METHODS
3.1 Data Collcction
3.2 Approaches to Analysis
3.2.1 Content analysis approach
3.2.2 Critical discourse analysis approach
Chapter Four DATA ANALYSIS
4.1 Content Analysis
4.1.1 The product categories
4.1.2 The settings
4.1.3 The roles of female characters
4.2 Critical Discouse Analysis
4.2.1 Lexical choice
4.2.2 Personal system
4.2.3 Transitivity system
4.2.4 Presupposition and inference
Chapter Five CONCLUSIONS
5.1 Research Findings of the Thesis
5.2 Limitations and Suggestions for Future Studies
REFERENCES
APPENDIX