| English Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Rationale of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research Questions of the Present Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Overview of the Remaining Chapters | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-33页 |
| ·Different Approaches to Reference | 第18-30页 |
| ·Syntactic Approach to Reference | 第18页 |
| ·Pragmatic Approach to Reference | 第18-19页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to Reference | 第19-20页 |
| ·Functional Approach to Reference | 第20-30页 |
| ·Previous Research on Reference in China | 第30-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第33-48页 |
| ·Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis | 第33-37页 |
| ·Corpus-based Research | 第37-42页 |
| ·Corpus | 第38-40页 |
| ·Learner Corpus | 第40-42页 |
| ·Corpora Used in the Present Study | 第42-45页 |
| ·Chinese Learner English Corpus | 第42-44页 |
| ·British National Corpus | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Retrieving Tool | 第45页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analysis | 第45-48页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第48-68页 |
| ·Demonstrative Reference from CLEC | 第48-53页 |
| ·Overall Frequency | 第48-51页 |
| ·Features of Demonstrative Reference Used in CLEC | 第51-53页 |
| ·Differences of Demonstrative Reference Between CLEC and BNC | 第53-61页 |
| ·Quantitative Analysis of Demonstrative Reference Between CLEC and BNC | 第55-59页 |
| ·Possible Explanations for Learners’use of Demonstrative Reference | 第59-61页 |
| ·Demonstrative Reference and Coherence in CLEC | 第61-66页 |
| ·Summary | 第66-68页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第68-72页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第68-69页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications of the Study | 第69-71页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第71-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-78页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第78-80页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间的科研成果 | 第80页 |