| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第11-19页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第11-14页 |
| 1.2 Significance | 第14-15页 |
| 1.3 Research Objective and Research Questions | 第15-16页 |
| 1.4 Methodology and Data Collection | 第16-17页 |
| 1.5 Organization of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第19-32页 |
| 2.1 Previous Studies on Discourse Markers | 第19-29页 |
| 2.1.1 Definitions of Discourse Markers | 第19-23页 |
| 2.1.2 Approaches to Discourse Markers | 第23-27页 |
| 2.1.3 Ran Yongping’s Categorization of Discourse Markers | 第27-29页 |
| 2.1.4 Summary | 第29页 |
| 2.2 Previous Research on the Role of Discourse Markers in Consecutive Interpreting | 第29-30页 |
| 2.3 Summary | 第30-32页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第32-52页 |
| 3.1 Working Definition and classification of DMs | 第32-33页 |
| 3.2 Roles of Discourse Markers | 第33-36页 |
| 3.2.1 The Procedural Role of DMs | 第33-34页 |
| 3.2.2 DMs’ Textual Function | 第34页 |
| 3.2.3 DMs’ Function of Signaling Local Coherence | 第34-35页 |
| 3.2.4 DMs’ Function of Signaling Global Coherence | 第35-36页 |
| 3.3 Theoretical Foundation | 第36-48页 |
| 3.3.1 Basic Concepts of Relevance Theory | 第36-45页 |
| 3.3.2 A Relevance Theoretical View of DMs | 第45-47页 |
| 3.3.3 Process and Phases of CI | 第47-48页 |
| 3.4 Theoretical Framework | 第48-50页 |
| 3.4.1 CI as Ostensive-inferential Communication | 第49页 |
| 3.4.2 The Role of DMs in Ostensive-inferential Model of CI | 第49-50页 |
| 3.5 Summary | 第50-52页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATIONS UNDER THE FRAMEWORK OF RELEVANCE THEORY AND THE OSTENSIVE-INFERENTIAL MODEL OF CI | 第52-70页 |
| 4.1 Introduction to the Data Collecting Process | 第52-54页 |
| 4.1.1 Transcriptions of CI at Premier’s Conference | 第52-53页 |
| 4.1.2 Recognition of Added DMs | 第53页 |
| 4.1.3 Marking DMs in Transcriptions | 第53-54页 |
| 4.2 Observations of the Researching Material | 第54-56页 |
| 4.2.1 The Number of Words and added DMs in the Transcriptions | 第54页 |
| 4.2.2 The Number of Each Type of DMs Added in the Transcriptions | 第54-56页 |
| 4.3 Analysis of the Observations | 第56-70页 |
| 4.3.1 The Addition of Certain Types of DMs | 第56-57页 |
| 4.3.2 The Functions of the Added DMs | 第57-67页 |
| 4.3.3 The Reasons of the Addition | 第67-70页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第70-73页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第70-71页 |
| 5.2 Implications | 第71页 |
| 5.3 Limitations | 第71-72页 |
| 5.4 Suggestions for Future Research | 第72-73页 |
| REFERENCES | 第73-75页 |
| APPENDIX | 第75-174页 |
