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Acknowledgements I am greatly indebted to a great number of people who have helped me to make the completion of this thesis possibleI owe a debt of gratitude to my supervisor Professor He Gang for his enlightening suggestions and incisive comments. His attitude to research as a scholar gives me guidance on how to do research well. His devotion to teaching and research and his strong sense of responsibility set a good example for me. Without his supervision, it would be impossible to complete this thesis as its present formI am very much grateful to all the other professors who taught me and gave me great help during the three years of my postgraduate study. They are Professor Zhang Jisheng, Prof. Wang Fufang, Associate Prof. Zhang Yi, Associate Prof. Zhang Chunlong and so on. Their lectures are invaluable assets for me to cherish for my lifetime I would also like to express my gratitude to my parents for their support to my study and my friends and classmates who give me a good deal of pleasure when they discuss and argue about my thesis and encourage me all the time. Without them, I can not have completed this thesis The thesis is dedicated to them all i Abstract Nowadays, natural disasters keep threatening to the society at-large and have unavoidably aroused a great deal of public attention. News about disasters becomes the focus of people’s concern not only in everyday life but also gains attention in the research field often due to the fact that it produces enormous negative effect. In the linguistic field, disaster news has been explored mainly from the perspective of stylistic study and critical linguistic approach. This thesis, however, attempts to break through the traditional research modes and tries to adopt a different perspective to investigate disaster news reports extracted from China Daily, People’s Daily, The New York Times, and The Washington Post under the framework of speech act theory and perspective taking theoryIn this