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多模态语篇的连贯构建研究 以中国英语学习广告为例 英文版
1.7.3.4 4.3.4 Course information
4.3.4 Course information

Since this stage is about what the language schools/companies are trying to sell,we can predict that it has a very important status in these promotional discourses.The content in this stage is usually highly elaborated and finely categorized.The salient feature of this stage is the large amount of tables.That is,the information of all courses is categorized and listed in tables.Some leaflets also include a bar chart to show the different levels of the English courses.The function of this stage in the English learning advertisements is like that of the product catalog in company brochures which also often takes the form of categorized lists and tables.

The topics in this stage include titles of the courses,description of the courses which include sub-topics such as the objective of the course,the target learners of the course,the time and place of the courses,tuition fee,among others.