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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research background
1.2 Purpose of the study
1.3 Research questions
Chapter Two Critical Literature Review
2.1 Discourse and discourse analysis
2.2 Critical discourse analysis (CDA)
2.2.1 History and aims of CDA
2.2.2 Different Methodology and schools of CDA
2.3 Wodak's Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)
2.3.1 What is "critical" in DHA?
2.3.2 Notions of power, ideology and their relationships with language in DHA
2.3.3 Procedures of analysis of DHA
2.3.4 Linguistic study instrument:Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG)
2.4 Racism in American Immigration issues
2.4.1 Defining race and racism
2.4.2 Discourse-analytical framework to racism
2.4.3 Racism in American immigration history
2.5 Review of databases
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Description and collection of data
3.2 Justification for sampling
3.3 Procedure of data analysis
Chapter Four Discussion and Findings
4.1 Quantitative analysis and discussion of data
4.2 Qualitative analysis and discussion of data
4.2.1 Descriptive and interpretive analyses of two sample texts
4.2.2 Explanative contrast of the two case studies
4.3 Findings
4.3.1 The linguistic naming and referring of persons or social groups
4.3.2 Arguments and argumentation schemes
4.3.3 The ideological perspective and the social-historical background
Chapter Five Conclusions
5.1 Summary of the research
5.2 Significance of the research
5.3 Limitations of the research
5.4 Areas for future research
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