Chapter One Introduction：Discourse,War Legitimacy and the Iraq War

1.1 Background

1.2 The notion of discourse

1.3 Discourse and war

1.4 Iraq War discourse studies:an overview

1.5 Research objectives

1.6 Data

1.7 Chapter overview

Chapter Two Theoretical Framework and Methodology

2.1 Critical discourse analysis

2.2 Analyzing war legitimation discourse in an interdisciplinary framework

2.3 Corpus-based CDA

2.4 Summary

Chapter Three Organization and Reorganization of Clusters and Constellations in Iraq War Discourse

3.1 Overview

3.2 Content-based analysis

3.3 Data description

3.4 Discussion

3.5 Summary

Chapter Four Axiological Investigation:Appraisal Analysis

4.1 The theoretical foundation of the appraisal framework

4.2 Corpus approach to appraisal analysis

4.3 Inscribed attitude analysis

4.4 Engagement analysis

4.5 Summary

Chapter Five Epistemic Investigation:Transitivity Analysis

5.1 Epistemic relations and ideational meaning

5.2 Corpus approach to transitivity analysis

5.3 Data description and explanation

5.4 Summary

Chapter Six A Complementary Perspective:Analyzing Text as It Unfolds

6.1 Complementarity of quantitative and qualitative approaches

6.2 Samples for analysis

6.3 Appraisal analysis

6.4 Transitivity analysis

6.5 Summary

Chapter Seven Conclusion

7.1 Summary of the findings

7.2 Research significance and implications

7.3 Limitations and suggestions for further study

References

Appendix A Corpus of Presidential Speeches

Appendix B Keyword Lists

Appendix C Claws 4 Tag Set for Verbs

Acknowledgements