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万方数据 万方数据 Acknowledgments I would like to seize this opportunity to give my grateful thanks to all those people who have helped me a lot. With every people?s kind help, this thesis has been accomplished. I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to them. First of all, I give my greatest gratitude to my friendly supervisor, Professor Sun Ruohong, both for her patient supervision and constant encouragement during my all stages of the writing process. She has supplied me with precious suggestions, constructive instruction and some guidance from the selection of the title, the arrangement of the outline, the data collection to the final version. I am honored to select her to be my supervisor. Secondly, I am also most grateful to other teachers in the School of Foreign Languages, Shenyang Normal University who taught me the basic knowledge of linguistics in the past three years. With the guidance of their lectures and strict attitudes, I got interested in the filed of linguistics and enhanced my academic value. Finally, my deep gratitude must be given to my family and friends whose silent support and accompany are of significance to my study, especially my parents, who have provided endless love and comforts during my hard times of writing. i Abstract Foregrounding is an important term, which was put forward by pre-war Prague School linguist Mukarovsky. It was originally used by pictorial art to refer to those prominent parts against background. Halliday further classified the foregrounding and prominence and regarded the foregrounding as “motivated prominence”. The term of “foregrounding” has received increasingly attention recently as a relatively new concept in discourse analysis. Reviewing the empirical study of foregrounding, in general, it focuses on the study of literary discourse, which is less discussed in news. Political news as a kind of special style in the news, to study it is of immeasurable value. First of all, English political news