Chapter1 Introduction 1 1.1 Background of the research 1 1.2 Purpose and significance of the research 3 1.3 Data and methodology 6 1.4 Organization of the book 9 Chapter 2 Literature Review 11 2.1 The study of tense in narrative 11 2.2 Studies of tense in media discourse and in corpus linguistics 22 2.3 Reflections on previous studies 24 Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework 27 3.1 Fleischmans theory of tense-aspect in narrative 27 3.2 Labov and Waletzkys narrative model and Bells model structurefor news text 31 3.3 A three-dimensional framework for tense analysis 34 Chapter 4 Tense Use on the Three Planes 41 4.1 Tense-position planeTextual distribution of the tenses 42 4.2 Tense-verb planeVerbs associated with the three tenses 47 4.3 Verb-position planeTextual distribution of verb categories 62 4.4 Tense, position and verb categories 67 Chapter 5 Tense Patterns 92 5.1 Patterns of the present tenseDistribution and functions 92 5.2 Present perfect patternsDistribution and functions 107 5.3 Consecutive use of present perfect and its functions in news report120 Chapter 6 Textual, Expressive and Metalinguistic Functions of Tense 132 6.1 Properties of tense-verb construction 132 6.2 Textual function of tenses 137 6.3 Expressive function of tenses 141 6.4 Metalinguistic function of tenses 143 6.5 The functions of tense and modern journalism 145 Chapter 7 Conclusion 147 7.1 Summary of the findings 147 7.2 Conclusion 150 7.3 Limitations and suggestions for further study 153 Bibliography 156 Appendix A Verbs associated with the present tense 169 Appendix B Verbs associated with the past tense 177 Appendix C Verbs associated with the present perfect 185 Appendix D Analysis of News Samples 193 1 Analysis of Sample News 1 194 2 Analysis of Sample News 2 198 Appendix E Sample News Text 1 204 Appendix F Sample News Text 2 208 Appendix G Sample News Text 3 211
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