| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| 内容提要 | 第7-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-29页 |
| ·The Notion of Cataphora | 第13-15页 |
| ·A Brief Literature Review | 第15-23页 |
| ·Related studies in English | 第15-20页 |
| ·Related studies in Chinese | 第20-23页 |
| ·General Aims and Objectives | 第23-24页 |
| ·Some Methodological Preliminaries | 第24-27页 |
| ·Research methodology | 第24-25页 |
| ·Selection of English and Chinese novels for the study | 第25-26页 |
| ·Typographic conventions | 第26-27页 |
| ·Organization of the Dissertation | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Two Identification and Classifications of Cataphora | 第29-45页 |
| ·Introduction | 第29页 |
| ·Zero Pronoun as Cataphor in Chinese | 第29-34页 |
| ·Zero Pronoun as Cataphor in English | 第34-37页 |
| ·Classifications of Cataphora | 第37-41页 |
| ·Genuine cataphora Vs repeat identification by van Hoek (1997) | 第37-38页 |
| ·Classification of cataphora by 许余龙、贺小聃（2007） | 第38-41页 |
| ·Distribution of Referential Types in Our Chinese and English Corpora | 第41-44页 |
| ·Distribution of referential types in Chinese narrative discourse | 第42-43页 |
| ·Distribution of referential types in English narrative discourse | 第43-44页 |
| ·Summary | 第44-45页 |
| Chapter Three Basic Patterns and Configurations of Cataphora in Chinese and English Narative Discourse | 第45-68页 |
| ·Introduction | 第45页 |
| ·Previous Researches on Basic Patterns and Configurations of Cataphora in English and Chinese | 第45-48页 |
| ·Basic Patterns and Configurations of Cataphora in English Narrative Discourse | 第48-56页 |
| ·Basic patterns | 第48-51页 |
| ·Prototypical configurations | 第51-56页 |
| ·Discourse cataphora and local discourse cataphora | 第51-54页 |
| ·Sentential cataphora | 第54页 |
| ·Overall distributional pattern of various configurations of cataphora in English narrative discourse | 第54-56页 |
| ·Basic Patterns and Configurations of Cataphora in Chinese Narrative Discourse | 第56-63页 |
| ·Basic patterns | 第56-58页 |
| ·Prototypical configurations | 第58-63页 |
| ·Local discourse cataphora | 第59-61页 |
| ·Sentential cataphora | 第61-63页 |
| ·Examination of Local Discourse Anaphora in English and Chinese Narrative Discourse | 第63-66页 |
| ·Local discourse anaphora in English narrative discourse | 第63-65页 |
| ·Local discourse anaphora in Chinese narrative discourse | 第65-66页 |
| ·Comparison and Discussion | 第66-68页 |
| Chapter Four Pragmatic Functions of Cataphora in English and Chinese Narrative Discourse | 第68-102页 |
| ·Introduction | 第68-69页 |
| ·Foreground and Background in Narrative Discourse | 第69-86页 |
| ·The notions of foreground and background | 第69-75页 |
| ·Linguistic markers of foreground and background | 第75-85页 |
| ·Aspect markers | 第76-82页 |
| ·Syntactic markers | 第82-85页 |
| ·Content criteria for distinguishing foreground and background | 第85-86页 |
| ·Grounding Status of the Cataphor-containing Structures in English Narrative Discourse | 第86-89页 |
| ·Sententce initial prepositional phrases | 第87-89页 |
| ·Sententce initial adverbial clauses and non-finite clauses | 第89页 |
| ·Grounding Status of the Cataphor-containing Structures in Chinese Narrative Discourse | 第89-97页 |
| ·Verification of Grounding Status of the Cataphor-containing Structures in the Four Referential Types in English and Chinese Narrative Discourse | 第97-100页 |
| ·Summary | 第100-102页 |
| Chapter Five A Cognitive Account of Cataphora in English and Chinese Narrative Discourse | 第102-149页 |
| ·Introduction | 第102页 |
| ·A Brief Overview of the Cognitive Processes involved in Discourse Comprehension | 第102-104页 |
| ·Cognitive States of Discourse Referents | 第104-112页 |
| ·The notions of identifiability and unidentifiability | 第105-106页 |
| ·Activation Cost Theory | 第106-109页 |
| ·Activation states, referential form and topic accessibility | 第109-112页 |
| ·Interpretation of Distributional Patterns of Cataphora in English and Chinese Narrative Discourse | 第112-125页 |
| ·Interpretation of the rarity of cataphora in general | 第112-118页 |
| ·Interpretation of occurrence frequencies of the three types of cataphora | 第118-125页 |
| ·Interpretation of Cataphora in terms of van Hoek’s Reference Point Model | 第125-143页 |
| ·Ariel’s Accessibility Theory | 第126-127页 |
| ·van Hoek’s Reference Point Model | 第127-132页 |
| ·Reference Point Model and cataphora in English and Chinese narrative discourse | 第132-143页 |
| ·The notion of topic and its identification | 第133-135页 |
| ·Topic status of postcedents in cataphora instances in our data | 第135-143页 |
| ·Cataphora as Cognitive Processing Instruction to the Reader | 第143-148页 |
| ·Summary | 第148-149页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第149-154页 |
| ·Introduction | 第149页 |
| ·Summary of Major Findings | 第149-152页 |
| ·Theoretical Implications | 第152页 |
| ·Limitations of This Study and Suggestions for Further Research | 第152-154页 |
| Appendix I | 第154-155页 |
| Appendix II | 第155-156页 |
| Bibliography | 第156-164页 |
