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Person References in Newspaper Headlines by Wang Ling Under the Supervision of Professor Ding Yanren Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts English Department School of Foreign Studies Nanjing University March 2004 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The completion of this thesis cannot be realized but for the help from a group of individuals, to whom I owe the deepest gratitude. I’d like to take this opportunity to express my heart-felt thankfulness to all of them. My deepest appreciation first extends to my two supervisors, Prof. Chen Xinren and Prof. Ding Yanren. Prof. Chen led me into the field of Pragmatics and under his consistent help and supervision, I acquired some knowledge about the discipline. When abroad, he still contacted us closely and helped me solve problems encountered in my research. Prof. Ting took over the supervising task when Prof. Chen went abroad for study. He has provided me with very detailed instructions on the composing of my thesis paper. He even helped to check my typing and identified many typing mistakes. Without his constant help, encouragement and expert advice during the whole process when I was dragging through each stage of this thesis, this paper couldn’t have been finished so quickly. His great help also finds its way in offering assistance in handling the methodological problems, providing constructive suggestions for analyzing the data and taking great pains in reading and revising this thesis meticulously. Thanks for his encouragement, advices and patience. I am also grateful for Prof. Wen Qiufang, whose strict requirements as well as insightful instructions in the thesis writing course is of great help to the methodology adopted in this thesis. I would also express my appreciation to all the professors who assisted me during my three years of postgraduate study and the completion of this thesis, such as Prof. Heng Renquan, Prof. Yu Hongliang, Prof. Wang Lifei and Prof. Wang Wenyu. Finall