Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Why the study7
1.2 Why the NVEs?
1.3 Historical demarcation of the NVEs
1.4 Identifying the NYEs as a genre of political discourse
1.4.1 Defining genre
1.4.2 NYEs as a genre of political discourse
1.5 Elucidating key notions
1.5.1 Ideology
1.5.2 Discourse as social representations
1.6 The purpose of the study
1.7 Outline of the dissertation
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 introduction
2.2 SFL approach to political discourse analysis
2.3 Corpus-based multi-dimensional approach to political discourse analysis
2.4 Socio-cognitive approach to political discourse analysis.
2.5 Critical discourse analysis
2.6 Contrastive rhetoric approach to political discourse Analysis
2.7 Pragmatic approach to political discourse analysis
2.8 Cognitive linguistic approach to political discourse analysis
2.9 Sociolinguistic approach to political discourse
2.10 Content analysis in communication studies
2.11 Summary
Chapter Three Theoretical Framework and Methodology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Establishing a theoretical framework for diachronic analysis of the NYEs
3.2.1 The model of social context and language in SFL
3.2.2 van Dijk's socio-cognitive model for political discourse analysis
3.2.3 The model of semiotic change in SFL
3.2.4 The integrated model for the diachronic analysis of the NYEs
3.3 Analytical tools for analyzing diachronic change of social relations in the NYEs
3.3.1 Generic structure potential analysis
3.3.2 Content analysis
3.3.3 Representation of social actors and social actions
3.3.3.1 Representation of social actors
3.3.3.2 Representation of social actions
3.3.4 Appraisal system
3.4 Methodology
3.4.1 Research questions
3.4.2 Methodology for the analysis of the NYEs
3.4.2.1 Data
3.4.2.2 Procedure
3.4.3 Methodology for the survey of social attitudes
……