| Abstract in English | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第7-10页 |
| Abbreviations | 第10-16页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第16-45页 |
| ·Objectives of the Current Research | 第16-19页 |
| ·Preliminary Investigations for Research Perspectives | 第19-39页 |
| ·Comprehensibility Test to Native and Nonnative Speakers of English | 第22-30页 |
| ·Research design and materials | 第22-26页 |
| ·Results and analysis | 第26-28页 |
| ·Discussion | 第28-30页 |
| ·Analysis of Discourse Patterns in English and Chinese Texts | 第30-32页 |
| ·Sentence Reordering Experiment | 第32-39页 |
| ·Research design | 第32-36页 |
| ·Results and analysis | 第36-39页 |
| ·Research Questions and Hypothesis for the Current Research | 第39-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41-43页 |
| Notes | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第45-106页 |
| ·Basic Concepts Concerning Text and Texture | 第45-58页 |
| ·The Notion of Text | 第45-47页 |
| ·Texture: Features of Being a Text | 第47-51页 |
| ·The Dynamics of Text | 第51-53页 |
| ·Multi-dimensionality and Patterns of Text | 第53-55页 |
| ·Cohesion and Coherence | 第55-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-58页 |
| ·Systemic-Functional Grammar: a Grammar for Text Analysis and Text Generation | 第58-67页 |
| ·Ethnographic-rhetorical Nature | 第58-60页 |
| ·Stratal Extension: Context as Seen from Systemic Linguistics | 第60-62页 |
| ·Ideation Base and Knowledge Base | 第62-63页 |
| ·Interaction Base and Text Planning | 第63页 |
| ·Text Base and Text Planning | 第63-65页 |
| ·Text Base and Rhetorical Structure Theory | 第65-66页 |
| ·Summary | 第66-67页 |
| ·Contrastive Rhetoric: Theory and Research | 第67-77页 |
| ·Contrastive Rhetoric with R. Kaplan | 第68-71页 |
| ·Contrastive Text Linguistics | 第71页 |
| ·Contrastive Rhetoric between Chinese and English | 第71-76页 |
| ·Summary | 第76-77页 |
| ·Text Structural Relation Theories | 第77-98页 |
| ·Clause Relations of Winter (1991) and Hoey (1983) | 第79-85页 |
| ·Defining clause relations | 第79-80页 |
| ·Categories of clause relations | 第80-82页 |
| ·Means of recognizing clause relations | 第82-85页 |
| ·Semantic Relations of Halliday (1985) and Crombie (1985) | 第85-87页 |
| ·Rhetorical Structural Relations of Mann and Thompson (1978) | 第87-91页 |
| ·Basic ideas and features | 第88页 |
| ·Classification of rhetorical relations | 第88-89页 |
| ·Operationalization of rhetorical relations in text analysis | 第89-91页 |
| ·Lexical Relational Theory of Hoey (1991) | 第91-95页 |
| ·Summary | 第95-98页 |
| ·A Basic Minimum Discourse Pattern | 第98-104页 |
| ·Discourse Relations and Discourse Patterns | 第98-99页 |
| ·A Minimum Discourse Pattern-Problem-Solution | 第99-104页 |
| ·Summary | 第104页 |
| Notes | 第104-106页 |
| Chapter Three Exploring Text Structural Relations in English, Chinese & EFL Texts | 第106-141页 |
| ·Rhetorical Structure Relation Analysis | 第106-115页 |
| ·Rhetorical Relations in Sample 1 | 第108-110页 |
| ·Rhetorical Relations in Sample 2 | 第110-112页 |
| ·Rhetorical Relations in Sample 3 and 4 | 第112-114页 |
| ·Summary | 第114-115页 |
| ·Clause Relation Analysis | 第115-131页 |
| ·Clause Relations in Sample 1 | 第117-120页 |
| ·Clause Relations in Sample 2 | 第120-125页 |
| ·Clause relations in Sample 3 and 4 | 第125-129页 |
| ·Summary | 第129-131页 |
| ·Lexical Relation Analysis | 第131-140页 |
| ·Lexical Relations in Sample 1 | 第131-133页 |
| ·Lexical Relations in Sample 2 | 第133-134页 |
| ·Lexical Relations in Sample 3 and 4 | 第134-137页 |
| ·Summary | 第137-140页 |
| Notes | 第140-141页 |
| Chapter Four Exploring Minimum Patterns in English, Chinese and EFL Texts | 第141-167页 |
| ·Analysis of Minimum Discourse Patterns in Sample Texts | 第141-151页 |
| ·The Discourse Pattern in Sample 1 | 第143-145页 |
| ·The Discourse Pattern in Sample 2 | 第145-147页 |
| ·The Discourse Pattern in Sample 4 | 第147-148页 |
| ·The Discourse Pattern in Sample 5 | 第148-150页 |
| ·Summary and Discussion | 第150-151页 |
| ·Analysis of Minimum Discourse Patterns in other EFL Texts | 第151-161页 |
| ·EFL Text A | 第152-154页 |
| ·EFL Text B | 第154-156页 |
| ·EFL Text C | 第156-159页 |
| ·EFL Text D | 第159-161页 |
| ·Summary and Discussion | 第161-165页 |
| ·Circumstance-consequence Rather than Problem-Solution | 第162-163页 |
| ·Problem is not Absolutely Necessary but Optional | 第163页 |
| ·Rhetorical Patterns of Chinese Speakers | 第163-164页 |
| ·Discourse Coherence and Logical Thinking | 第164-165页 |
| Notes | 第165-167页 |
| Chapter Five Literacy across Languages: Explanations &implications | 第167-215页 |
| ·Explaining the Complexity of L2 Writing Process | 第167-188页 |
| ·Rhetorical Conventions with English and Chinese exposition | 第168-173页 |
| ·Effect of Educational Experiences on EFL writing | 第173-178页 |
| ·Interactive L1 and L2 Text Generation Processes | 第178-183页 |
| ·Functional Interpretation of Text Comprehensibility | 第183-187页 |
| ·Summary | 第187-188页 |
| ·Understanding a Discourse-based View of Language | 第188-198页 |
| ·Written and Spoken Modes are Intersected | 第190-191页 |
| ·Language is Dialogic in Nature | 第191-192页 |
| ·Grammar and Lexis are Inseparable | 第192-194页 |
| ·The Underlying Patterns are Maintained in all Text Types and Genres | 第194-195页 |
| ·Text is a Product of Culture and Ideology | 第195-197页 |
| ·Schemata Contain Linguistic Structures | 第197-198页 |
| ·Implications for the Teaching and Learning of EFL Writing | 第198-212页 |
| ·Pattern Language Teaching | 第199-203页 |
| ·An approach focusing on teaching process | 第199-201页 |
| ·Teaching lexis in context as signals of pattern | 第201-202页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第202-203页 |
| ·Genre-based Process Writing | 第203-212页 |
| ·Significance of genre-based teaching of writing | 第204-206页 |
| ·Operationalization of Genre-based Process Teaching | 第206-212页 |
| ·Summary | 第212-214页 |
| Notes | 第214-215页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第215-223页 |
| ·Research Findings to Problems and Hypotheses | 第215-217页 |
| ·Contributions of the Current Research | 第217-221页 |
| ·Understanding of the Dynamic Nature of Language | 第218-219页 |
| ·Understanding of the Rhetorical Distinctions between English & Chinese | 第219-220页 |
| ·Understanding of EFL Writing Processes | 第220页 |
| ·Understanding of Language as Discourse and its Implication on EFL Learning and Teaching | 第220-221页 |
| ·Limitations of the Current Research and Suggestions for Possible Future Studies | 第221-223页 |
| Bibliography | 第223-232页 |
| Appendices | 第232-237页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第237-238页 |
| 在读期间公开发表的学术专著和论文 | 第238页 |
