本章共有四节:第一节 研究的缘起, 第二节 中英美三国主流报刊简介, 第三节 分析框架, 第四节 本书结构。这一节概述了每章的基本内容。如:
- 第一章“绪论”简要叙述了研究的背景和意义,介绍研究框架并提出研究问题。
- 第二章“话语研究的方法与视角”介绍了批判话语分析,尤其是媒体话语分析的研究方法,回顾了国内外关于低碳经济研究以及话语研究的重要成果。
- 第三章“语料库方法论”回顾了基于语料库的研究方法的特点及其在话语分析中的优势。同时,详尽介绍了“词频”“主题词”“搭配”“索引分析”等语料库方法的运用。
- 第四章“《人民日报》围绕低碳的话语建构”,描述了 2000 年至 2014年《人民日报》关于低碳经济的话语建构。
- 第五章“英国主流报刊关于低碳经济的话语建构”,描述了英国主流报刊 2000 年至 2014 年关于低碳经济的话语建构。
- 第六章“美国主流报刊围绕低碳的话语建构”,描述了美国主流报刊2000 年至 2014 年关于低碳经济的话语建构。
- 第七章“中国、英国、美国社会情境分析”,主要用语料库数据的分析结果解释了中英美三国不同的政治和经济体制,阐释不同政体的低碳经济话语与社会间的动态关系 。
- 第八章“结语”部分概括了研究的具体发现,并提出后续研究的相关问题
This chapter contains four sections: Section One – The Origin of the Study, Section Two – An Overview of Mainstream Newspapers in China, the UK, and the US, Section Three – Analytical Framework, and Section Four – Structure of the Book. This section outlines the basic content of each chapter, as follows:
- Chapter One Introduction: briefly describes the background and significance of the study, introduces the research framework, and poses research questions.
- Chapter Two Methods and Perspectives in Discourse Study: introduces critical discourse analysis, especially the research methods of media discourse analysis, and reviews significant findings in domestic and international research on the low-carbon economy and discourse studies.
- Chapter Three Corpus Methodology: revisits the characteristics of research methods based on the corpus and its advantages in discourse analysis. It also provides a detailed introduction to the application of corpus methods such as ‘word frequency,’ ‘keywords,’ ‘collocation,’ and ‘index analysis.’
- Chapter Four Discourse Construction on Low Carbon in the People’s Daily: describes the discourse construction about the low-carbon economy in the People’s Daily from 2000 to 2014.
- Chapter Five Discourse Construction on Low Carbon in Mainstream UK Newspapers: describes the discourse construction about the low-carbon economy in mainstream UK newspapers from 2000 to 2014.
- Chapter Six Discourse Construction on Low Carbon in Mainstream US Newspapers: describes the discourse construction about the low-carbon economy in mainstream US newspapers from 2000 to 2014.
- Chapter Seven Social Context Analysis in China, UK, and US: primarily uses the results of corpus data analysis to explain the different political and economic systems in China, the UK, and the US, interpreting the dynamic relationship between the low-carbon economic discourse and society under different political systems.
- Chapter Eight Conclusion: summarizes the specific findings of the research and raises related questions for subsequent studies.