| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-14页 |
| ·Significance of This Research | 第11-12页 |
| ·Purpose of This Research | 第12页 |
| ·Methods of This Research | 第12-13页 |
| ·Layout of This Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Background of Nautical English and English Abbreviations | 第14-34页 |
| ·General Description of Nautical English | 第14-19页 |
| ·Definition and Contents of Nautical English | 第14-18页 |
| ·Lexical Features of Nautical English | 第18-19页 |
| ·Production and Development of English Abbreviations | 第19-21页 |
| ·Functions of English Abbreviations | 第21-24页 |
| ·Word-formation of English Abbreviations | 第24-31页 |
| ·Initial | 第24-26页 |
| ·Acronym | 第26-27页 |
| ·Clipping | 第27-29页 |
| ·Blending | 第29-31页 |
| ·Other Features of English Abbreviations | 第31-34页 |
| ·Grammatical Features of English Abbreviations | 第31-32页 |
| ·Pronunciation of English Abbreviations | 第32-33页 |
| ·Punctuation of English Abbreviations | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第34-39页 |
| ·Corpora Used in This Research | 第34-36页 |
| ·NEC | 第34-35页 |
| ·Nautical English Abbreviation Corpus | 第35页 |
| ·BROWNAB | 第35-36页 |
| ·Tools and Software | 第36页 |
| ·Procedures of Obtaining Data of the Thesis | 第36-39页 |
| ·First Step: Picking out All Abbreviations Existed in NEC | 第36-37页 |
| ·Second Step: Comparing the Distribution of Abbreviations between NEC and BROWNAB | 第37-38页 |
| ·Third Step: Obtaining Abbreviations Both in NEC and BROWNAB | 第38-39页 |
| Chapter 4 Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Nautical English Abbreviations | 第39-61页 |
| ·Distribution and Comparison of Abbreviations between NEC and Another Corpus BROWNAB | 第39-41页 |
| ·Distribution of Abbreviations between NEC and BROWNAB | 第39-40页 |
| ·Comparison of Abbreviations between NEC and BROWNAB | 第40-41页 |
| ·Analysis of Top 50 High Frequency Abbreviations in NEC | 第41-45页 |
| ·Results of Top 50 Abbreviations in NEC | 第41-43页 |
| ·Analysis of Top 50 Abbreviations in NEC | 第43-45页 |
| ·Analysis of Linguistic Features of Abbreviations in NEC | 第45-53页 |
| ·Structural Features of Abbreviations in NEC | 第45-50页 |
| ·Grammatical Features of Abbreviations in NEC | 第50-53页 |
| ·Analysis of Non-linguistic Features of Abbreviations in NEC | 第53-61页 |
| ·General Abbreviations Used in NEC | 第53-55页 |
| ·Professional Abbreviations Used in NEC | 第55-61页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第61-64页 |
| ·Findings | 第61-62页 |
| ·Implications | 第62-63页 |
| ·Limitations | 第63-64页 |
| References | 第64-66页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第66-67页 |
| Publications | 第67-68页 |
| Appendix 1 | 第68-70页 |
| Appendix 2 | 第70-72页 |
| Appendix 3 | 第72-77页 |
| Resume | 第77页 |
