Acknowledgements
　　List of Figures and Tables
　　Chapter One Introduction
　　 1.1 Background of studies of advertising language
　　 1.2 Research questions and significance of this study
　　 1.3 Theoretical and methodological orientations of this study
　　 1.4 Data collection
　　 1.5 Organization of the dissertation
　　Chapter Two Theory Preliminaries
　　 2.1 Introduction
　　 2.2 Critical discourse analysis
　　 2.2.1 From discourse analysis to critical discourse analysis
　　 2.2.2 A survey of critical discourse analysis
　　 2.3 The view of discourse in critical discourse analysis
　　 2.3.1 Discourse vs. Text
　　 2.3.2 Discourse as action
　　 2.3.3 Discourse as ideologies
　　 2.4 Ideology and power in language
　　 2.4.1 Ideology
　　 2.4.2 Power
　　 2.4.3 The relationship among language, ideology and power
　　 2.5 The text-oriented framework for analysing ideologies
　　 2.5.1 Hallidayan paradigm : text functionality in context
　　 2.5.2 Framework for analysing ideology in discourse: Fairclough' s three-dimension model
　　 2.6 Summary
　　Chapter Three Modality as Explicit Representation of Ideologies in Advertising Discourse
　　 3.1 Introduction
　　 3.2 The ideological nature of modality
　　 3.3 Meaning dimensions and grammatical devices of modality
　　 3.3.1 Meaning dimensions of modality
　　 3.3.2 Grammatieal devices of modality
　　 3.4 Modality and its ideological meanings in advertising discourse
　　 3.4.1 Ideological meanings of modality in advertising disco urse: a case study
　　 3.4.2 Modality distribution in advertising texts: empirical studies
　　 3.5 Summary
　　Chapter Four Personal system as Representation of
　　 Ideologies in Advertising Discourse
　　 4.1 Introduction
　　 4.2 The functions of personal pronouns:SFL perspective
　　 4.3 The politics of some personal pronouns
　　 4.3.1 "them and us" attitude
　　 4.3.2 "me" and "you" :subjectivity or empathy
　　 4.4 Ideological meanings of personal pronotms in ads
　　 4.4.1 Characteristics of use of personal pronouns in ads
　　 4.4.2 Personal pronouns work ideologically in building relations
　　 4.5 Snmmary
　　Chapter Five Transitivity as Implicit Representation of Ideologies m Advertising Discourse
　　 5.1 Introduction
　　 5.2 Transitivity as the construal of experience
　　 5.3 Transitivity as representation of ideologies
　　 5.4 Transitivity system and the power relations in advertising discourse
　　 5.5 Summary
　　Chapter Six Intertextnality as Representation of Ideologies in Advertising Discourse
　　 6.1 Introduction
　　 6.2 What is intertextuality
　　 6.2.1 Bakhtin:dialogism and heteroglossia
　　 6.2.2 Kristeva:intertextuality as dialogue between texts or text and social context
　　 6.2.3 Other interpretations of the term "intertextuality"
　　 6.2.4 Intertextuality and interdiscursivity
　　 6.3 The ideological functions of intertextuality
　　 6.4 Intertextuality as hegemonic struggle in advertising discourse
　　 6.5 Summary
　　Chapter Seven Conclusion
　　 7.1 Summary of this dissertation
　　 7.2 Major findings
　　 7.3 Limitations of this study
　　 7.4 Suggestions for further research
　　Appendices
　　Bibliography