封面 书名页 版权页 Acknowledgements Abstract 中文摘要 目录页 List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background of the research 1.2 Purpose and significance of the research 1.3 Data and methodology 1.4 Organization of the book Chapter 2 Literature Review 2.1 The study of tense in narrative 2.2 Studies of tense in media discourse and in corpus linguistics 2.3 Reflections on previous studies Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework 3.1 Fleischman's theory of tense-aspect in narrative 3.2 Labov and Waletzky's narrative model and Bell's model structure for news text 3.3 A three-dimensional framework for tense analysis Chapter 4 Tense Use on the Three Planes 4.1 Tense-position plane—Textual distribution of the tenses 4.2 Tense-verb plane—Verbs associated with the three tenses 4.3 Verb-position plane—Textual distribution of verb categories 4.4 Tense,position and verb categories Chapter 5 Tense Patterns 5.1 Patterns of the present tense—Distribution and functions 5.2 Present perfect patterns—Distribution and functions 5.3 Consecutive use of present perfect and its functions in news report Chapter 6 Textual,Expressive and Metalinguistic Functions of Tense 6.1 Properties of tense-verb construction 6.2 Textual function of tenses 6.3 Expressive function of tenses 6.4 Metalinguistic function of tenses 6.5 The functions of tense and modern journalism Chapter 7 Conclusion 7.1 Summary of the findings 7.2 Conclusion 7.3 Limitations and suggestions for further study Bibliography Appendix A Verbs associated with the present tense Appendix B Verbs associated with the past tense Appendix C Verbs associated with the present perfect Appendix D Analysis of News Samples 1 Analysis of Sample News 1 2 Analysis of Sample News 2 Appendix E Sample News Text 1 Appendix F Sample News Text 2 Appendix G Sample News Text 3 封底 ..更多