Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Rationale for the study 1.2.1 Why study media discourses of the American Dream and the Chinese Dream 1.2.2 Why use corpus analytical procedures to reveal media discourses related to the American Dream and the Chinese Dream 1.2.3 Why critically study the American Dream and the Chinese Dream 1.3 Corpus-driven CDA 1.4 Research questions and scope of the study 1.5 Outline of the study Chapter 2 The American Dream and the Chinese Dream 2.1 Introduction 2.2 History and development of the American Dream 2.3 The Chinese Dream and its relation to the American Dream Chapter 3 CDA and Media Discourse Studies 3.1 Introduction 3.2 CDA 3.3 Media discourse and ideology 3.4 Critical corpus analyses of media discourse Chapter 4 The Semantic Tagging and Phraseological Tendency 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Semantic tagging 4.3 The phraseological tendency 4.4 Concgrams and phraseological variation Chapter 5 Data Description and Research Methodology 5.1 Data description 5.2 Research design 5.3 Triangulating methods Chapter 6 Analysis and Discussion 6.1 Analysis of semantic field 6.1.1 Introduction 6.1.2 Results 6.1.3 Summary 6.2 Analysis of co-selections of frequent lexical words 6.2.1 Introduction 6.2.2 Results 6.2.3 Summary 6.3 Analysis of co-selections of lexical keywords 6.3.1 Introduction 6.3.2 Keywords 6.3.3 Results 6.3.4 Summary 6.4 Analysis of phraseologies 6.4.1 Introduction 6.4.2 The frequent phraseologies 6.4.3 Results 6.4.4 Summary 6.5 Discussion of findings 6.5.1 Introduction 6.5.2 Making comparisons 6.5.3 Summary Chapter 7 Conclusions 7.1 Summing up 7.2 Assessing triangulation 7.3 Limitations of the study 7.4 Suggestions for future research Bibliography ��ӛ