| ABSTRACT | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-13页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第13-17页 |
| ·Research Background | 第13-14页 |
| ·Significance of the Research and the Purpose | 第14-15页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第15页 |
| ·Thesis Organization | 第15-17页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-32页 |
| ·Definition of Linking Adverbial | 第17-18页 |
| ·Classification of Linking Adverbial | 第18-22页 |
| ·Halliday & Hasan’s Classification | 第18-19页 |
| ·Quirk et al.’s Classification | 第19-20页 |
| ·Biber et al.’s Classification | 第20-22页 |
| ·Functional Classifications | 第22页 |
| ·Linking Adverbial in Academic Writing | 第22-25页 |
| ·Genre Analysis of Academic Thesis | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Role of Linking Adverbial in Academic Writing | 第24-25页 |
| ·Previous Research on Linking Adverbial | 第25-29页 |
| ·Researches of Linking Adverbial Abroad | 第25-27页 |
| ·Researches of Linking Adverbial at Home | 第27-29页 |
| ·Vocabulary Acquisition in L2 Learners | 第29-32页 |
| ·L2 Vocabulary Knowledge: a Semantic Perspective | 第29-30页 |
| ·Relevance Theory: a Cognitive Pragmatic Perspective | 第30页 |
| ·Mental Lexicon: a Psychological Perspective | 第30-32页 |
| CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第32-38页 |
| ·Corpus-based Approach and Compilation of the Corpus | 第32-34页 |
| ·Corpus-based Approach | 第32-33页 |
| ·Compilation of the Corpus | 第33-34页 |
| ·Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis | 第34-35页 |
| ·Retrieve Tools | 第35-36页 |
| ·PDF Converter and Text Editor | 第35页 |
| ·The Software Antconc | 第35页 |
| ·The Software SPSS 16.0 | 第35-36页 |
| ·Data Processing | 第36-38页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第38-60页 |
| ·Distribution Patterns of Linking Adverbials in Chinese and American MATheses of Linguistics | 第38-46页 |
| ·Overall Frequency of Linking Adverbials in CTLC and ATLC | 第38-40页 |
| ·Coverage of Linking Adverbials in Different Parts in CTLC and ATLC | 第40-42页 |
| ·Top Fifteen Frequently Used Linking Adverbials in CTLC and ATLC | 第42-44页 |
| ·Discussion on the Distribution Patterns | 第44-46页 |
| ·Distributions of Concrete Linking Adverbials | 第46-53页 |
| ·Distributions of Different Semantic Types of Linking Adverbials | 第46-49页 |
| ·Distributions of Different Functional Classifications of Linking Adverbials .. 374.2.3 Discussion on Distributions of Concrete Linking Adverbials | 第49-53页 |
| ·Different Preferences in the Choice of Linking Adverbials | 第53-60页 |
| ·Overused and Underused Linking Adverbials in Chinese and AmericanMA Theses of Linguistics | 第53-55页 |
| ·Analysis of Particular linking adverbial | 第55-57页 |
| ·Possible Reasons for this Phenomenon | 第57-60页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第60-65页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Research | 第60-62页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第62-64页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第64-65页 |
| REFERENCES | 第65-69页 |
| 中文参考文献 | 第69-70页 |
| APPENDIX | 第70-72页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第72-73页 |
| PUBLICATIONS | 第73页 |
