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1 2 A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF CHINESE AND ENGLISH NET NEWS HEADLINES ——FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR By Chen Wen Under the supervision of Associate Professor Yang Ling A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the School of Foreign Studies Anhui University April 2009 3 Acknowledgements My sincere gratitude goes to those who have contributed to the accomplishment of this thesis directly or indirectly, and all the teachers who taught me and gave me great help and encouragements in the past three years. My greatest debt is to my supervisor, Assistant Professor Yang Ling, who provides me with tremendous help. I have benefited a lot from frequent discussions with her, without which the completion of this thesis would not have been possible. Sincere thanks also go to all my teachers, including Professor Zhu Yue, Professor Zhou Fangzhu, Professor Zhang Ming, Professor Zhu Xiaomei, Associate Professor Hu Jian, Associate Professor Zhang Hongxia, etc, who have imparted on me invaluable knowledge and helped me a great deal during my three years’ studies at Anhui University. Finally, I would like to extend my thanks to many of my friends, especially Wan Yao, who inspires me to choose this research topic, and Wang Xiang, my classmate, who offers me great help in dealing with statistics. Their generous support has given me strength to complete this thesis. i Abstract M.A.K. Halliday, the founder of systemic functional grammar, points out in An Introduction to Functional Grammar (2000) that the purpose of establishing functional grammar is to provide a practical approach to analyzing written and spoken discourses and it can also be applied in the analysis of little texts such as news headlines. Therefore, functional grammar can be used as a tool to analyze net news headlines (NNHs). The present thesis a