This paper chooses40China-related cover stories in Time magazine during theperiod of1949-2009as research data, combining the corpus linguistics study methodwith Systemic Functional Grammar theory, from the perceptive of ideational function,interpersonal function and textual function, lexical features like attitude lexis modifiersof common high frequency words, high frequency modal verbs, verbal process, rhetoricalmetaphors are analyzed through searching of
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