Table of Contents

1 Introduction; 2 Introduction to Reported Speech; 3 The Multidimensional Research Perspective of Reported Speech; 4 Reported Speech in Chinese News Headlines; 5 Reporting Modes in Chinese and English Newspapers (Part One); 6 Reporting Modes in Chinese and English Newspapers (Part Two); 7 Reporting Verbs in Chinese and English Newspaper Reports; 8 News Sources in Chinese and English Newspapers; 9 Reported Speech in Different Newspaper Genres; 10 Conclusion

About the Author

XIN Bin is Professor of the School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, China. His research interests include pragmatics, systemic functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis.

GAO Xiaoli is Lecturer of the School of Foreign Languages, Hohai University, China.

SHEN Lei is an associate professor of Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, China. Her research interest is comparative discourse analysis.

WANG Jingping is an associate professor of Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, China. Her research interest is EFL writin