| 英文摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| Chapter1 INTRODUCTION | 第8-19页 |
| 1．1 Composition of Modern English Novels | 第8-13页 |
| 1．2 The Purpose and Significance of the Research | 第13-15页 |
| 1．3 Research Methods | 第15页 |
| 1．3．1 The Corpora Used to Carry Out the Study | 第15页 |
| 1．4 Data Collection | 第15-17页 |
| 1．4．1 Data Sampling of Conversation in Modern English Novels | 第15-16页 |
| 1．4．2 Description of Real Life Conversation | 第16-17页 |
| 1．5 The Layout of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter2 CHARACTERISTICS OF CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH | 第19-41页 |
| 2．1 Conversational English | 第19-26页 |
| 2．1．1 Functions of Language | 第19-20页 |
| 2．1．2 Types and Participants in Conversation | 第20-25页 |
| 2．1．3 Comparing Discourse,Interaction, and Conversation Analysis | 第25-26页 |
| 2．2 Characteristics of Conversational English | 第26-37页 |
| 2．2．1 Principles Governing Conversation | 第26-34页 |
| 2．2．2 Determinants of Conversation | 第34-37页 |
| 2．3 Written English and Spoken Language | 第37-41页 |
| 2．3．1 Differences in Manner of Production Between Written and Spoken Language | 第38-39页 |
| 2．3．2 Differences in Form Between Written and Spoken Language | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter3 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATION IN NOVELS | 第41-61页 |
| 3．1 Lexical Distribution | 第41-50页 |
| 3．1．1 Type/Token Ratio | 第41-43页 |
| 3．1．2 Word Frequency Distribution | 第43-47页 |
| 3．1．3 The Use of Personal Pronouns | 第47-48页 |
| 3．1．4 High Frequency of Be,Have,Do in Both CMEN And RLC | 第48-50页 |
| 3．2 Stylistical Characteristics | 第50-61页 |
| 3．2．1 Word Length | 第50-54页 |
| 3．2．2 Sentence Length | 第54-58页 |
| 3．2．3 Fillers | 第58-61页 |
| Chapter4 CONCLUSIONS | 第61-64页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 第64-65页 |
| REFERENCES | 第65-68页 |
| APPENDIXES | 第68-80页 |
| Ⅰ． Novels in Corpus CMEN | 第68-70页 |
| Ⅱ． Twenty Longest Words In Each Corpus | 第70-72页 |
| Ⅲ． Sentence Length In Each Corpus | 第72-80页 |
