| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Research Background | 第9-10页 |
| ·Objectives and Significance of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第12-22页 |
| ·Cause- consequence Relation as One Category of Clause Relation | 第12-16页 |
| ·Concept of Clause Relation and its Classification | 第12-15页 |
| ·Cause-consequence Relation and its Exploration | 第15-16页 |
| ·Discourse Markers | 第16-19页 |
| ·Three Approaches to Discourse Markers | 第16-18页 |
| ·Previous Studies of DMs | 第18-19页 |
| ·Contrastive Rhetoric | 第19-21页 |
| ·Definition of CR | 第19-20页 |
| ·Contrastive Rhetoric between Chinese and English | 第20-21页 |
| ·Limitations of the Pervious Studies | 第21-22页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第22-27页 |
| ·Halliday and Hasan s Causal Relation | 第22-23页 |
| ·Classification of Cause-Consequence Relation | 第23-27页 |
| Chapter 4 Methodology | 第27-29页 |
| ·The Corpus | 第27页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第27-28页 |
| ·Research Procedure | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter 5 Data Analysis and Discussion | 第29-52页 |
| ·Frequency of Cause-consequence DMs | 第29-38页 |
| ·Frequency Distribution of Cause-Consequence DMs in Linguistics Journal | 第29-30页 |
| ·Frequency Distribution of Cause-Consequence DMs in Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistic | 第30-32页 |
| ·Frequency Distribution of Cause-Consequence DMs in Journal of China Languages | 第32-33页 |
| ·Cause-Consequence DMs in Non-Cause- Consequence Relation | 第33-34页 |
| ·Contrast of Cause-Consequence DMs in Three Journals | 第34-36页 |
| ·Frequency Distribution of Cause-consequence Relation in Three Journals | 第36-38页 |
| ·Features of Cause-Consequence DMs | 第38-48页 |
| ·Syntactic Patterns of Cause-Consequence Relations | 第39-43页 |
| ·Contrast of Semantic Meaning | 第43-45页 |
| ·Contrast of the Combination Use of Cause-Consequence DMs | 第45-48页 |
| ·Features of Cause-consequence Relation in Academic Writings | 第48-52页 |
| ·Features of some Signals in Cause-consequence Relation | 第48-51页 |
| ·Features of cause-consequence relation in academic writing structures | 第51-52页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第52-56页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第52-54页 |
| ·Implications to English Learning and Teaching | 第54-55页 |
| ·Limitations of the Research | 第55-56页 |
| References | 第56-58页 |
| Appendix | 第58-60页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第60页 |
