| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第10-14页 |
| ·DISCOURSE MARKERS | 第10-12页 |
| ·RESEARCH PURPOSE OF THE THESIS | 第12-13页 |
| ·THE STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS | 第13页 |
| ·SCOPES OF TERMINOLOGIES | 第13-14页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第14-26页 |
| ·STUDIES ON DISCOURSE MARKERS FROM THE ORIENTATION OF PRAGMATICS | 第14-23页 |
| ·Discourse-Coherence Account of Discourse Markers | 第14-20页 |
| ·Discourse Markers As the Start-point | 第15-18页 |
| ·Coherence Relations As the Start-point | 第18-20页 |
| ·Relevance-Theoretical Account of Discourse Markers | 第20-23页 |
| ·Speech Act Theoretic Account of Discourse Markers | 第23页 |
| ·DISCOURSE MARKERS AND GRAMMATICALIZATION | 第23-24页 |
| ·EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON DMS | 第24-26页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THE DEFINITION OF DISCOURSE MARKERS | 第26-42页 |
| ·A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON SOME PREVIOUS DEFINITIONS OF DISCOURSE MARKERS | 第26-31页 |
| ·A List of The Definitions of Discourse Markers | 第26-28页 |
| ·A Comparative Study | 第28-31页 |
| ·TO DEFINE DISCOURSE MARKERS | 第31-40页 |
| ·What Discourse Markers Relate | 第31-37页 |
| ·The Pragmatic Characterization of Discourse Markers | 第37-40页 |
| ·A TENTATIVE PROPOSAL ON THE DEFINITION OF DISCOURSE MARKERS | 第40页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第40-42页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR FUNCTIONS OF DISCOURSE MARKERS | 第42-67页 |
| ·THE MECHANSIM OF DISCOURSE AND THE FUNCTIONS OF DISCOURSE MARKERS | 第42-61页 |
| ·Discourse Coherence and Functions of Discourse Markers .. | 第42-48页 |
| ·Illocutionary Force and Discourse Markers | 第48-53页 |
| ·Relevance Theory and Functions of Discourse Markers –Andersen’s ‘functionally based analytical model | 第53-60页 |
| ·Theoretical bases | 第54-55页 |
| ·Cognitive effects and Functional Domains | 第55-60页 |
| ·Some Suggestions | 第60-61页 |
| ·THE SEMANTIC STATUS OF DISCOURSE MARKERS | 第61-65页 |
| ·Conceptual or Procedural Meaning | 第62-63页 |
| ·The Subjectivity Characterization of Discourse Markers | 第63-65页 |
| ·SOME SUGGESTIONS ON THE APPLICATION OF DISCOURSE MARKERS | 第65-66页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第66-67页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第67-69页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第69-71页 |
