| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| List of tables | 第8-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Major Concepts Concerning Anaphora | 第14-20页 |
| ·Definition of Anaphora | 第14-15页 |
| ·Antecedent and Anaphor | 第15-16页 |
| ·Definition of Indirect Anaphora | 第16-18页 |
| ·Direct Anaphora vs. Indirect Anaphora | 第18-19页 |
| ·Summary | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter 2 A Brief Survey of Literature | 第20-31页 |
| ·Syntactic Approach to IA - the Topic/Focus Model | 第20-22页 |
| ·Pragmatic Approaches to IA - the Relevance Theory | 第22-24页 |
| ·Cognitive Approaches to IA | 第24-30页 |
| ·The Accessibility Theory | 第24-27页 |
| ·The Schema-based Account | 第27-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter 3 A Proposed Approach: the Resolution Mechanism | 第31-38页 |
| ·Basic Assumptions | 第31-32页 |
| ·Research Design | 第32-36页 |
| ·Purpose of the Study | 第32页 |
| ·Theoretical Basis | 第32-35页 |
| ·Data Collection and Its Criteria | 第35-36页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第35-36页 |
| ·Criteria for Data Collection | 第36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Discussion | 第38-62页 |
| ·Basic Statistics | 第38-49页 |
| ·Forms of NP1 | 第38-40页 |
| ·Forms of NP2 | 第40-42页 |
| ·Stereotypical and Non-stereotypical Relations between NP1 and NP2 | 第42-43页 |
| ·Semantic Relations between NP1 and NP2 | 第43-46页 |
| ·Textual Distances between NP1 and NP2 | 第46-47页 |
| ·Summary of the Basic Statistics | 第47-49页 |
| ·Applying the Resolution Mechanism to the Analysis of IA Instances in the Data | 第49-60页 |
| ·Stereotype-driven Resolution | 第49-56页 |
| ·Resolution Mechanism for Those with Single Schema | 第49-51页 |
| ·Resolution Mechanism for Those with Two or More Schemata | 第51-56页 |
| ·Non-stereotype-driven Resolution | 第56-60页 |
| ·Source of Non-stereotypical Information | 第56-58页 |
| ·Stereotype-driven and Non-Stereotype-driven Resolution Procedures | 第58-59页 |
| ·Non-stereotype-driven Resolution in Application | 第59-60页 |
| ·Summary | 第60-62页 |
| Conclusion | 第62-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-69页 |
