| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| List of tables and figures | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-18页 |
| ·The research orientation | 第13-14页 |
| ·Scope and purposes of the research | 第14-17页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter 2 Research On Discourse Connectives In Review | 第18-28页 |
| ·Three approaches in the study of discourse connectives | 第18-25页 |
| ·Coherence-based analysis of discourse connectives | 第18-20页 |
| ·Relevance-oriented analysis of discourse connectives | 第20-22页 |
| ·Grammatical analysis of discourse connectives | 第22-25页 |
| ·Researches on the acquisition of discourse connectives | 第25-28页 |
| ·Discourse connective acquisition in spoken language | 第25-26页 |
| ·Discourse connective acquisition in written language | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Identification and Classification of Discourse Connectives in Written Language | 第28-39页 |
| ·Identifying discourse connectives | 第28-35页 |
| ·Properties of discourse connectives | 第28-34页 |
| ·A working definition of discourse connectives | 第34-35页 |
| ·Classifying discourse connectives | 第35-39页 |
| Chapter 4 Methodology | 第39-50页 |
| ·The methodology of corpus-based linguistic analysis | 第39-41页 |
| ·Compilation of a comparable native corpus | 第41-44页 |
| ·Retrieving process and designation of discourse connectives | 第44-50页 |
| Chapter 5 Results and Analysis | 第50-84页 |
| ·General study of the use of discourse connectives by different groups | 第50-62页 |
| ·Overall frequencies of discourse connectives in each corpus | 第50-52页 |
| ·Frequencies of different types of discourse connectives by different groups of language users | 第52-60页 |
| ·Some possible explanations for the general findings | 第60-62页 |
| ·Specific study of the use of discourse connectives by different groups | 第62-84页 |
| ·Top 15 discourse connectives in each corpus | 第62-65页 |
| ·Case studies on and, but and so | 第65-75页 |
| ·Some possible explanations for the specific study | 第75-84页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第84-91页 |
| ·Major findings of the present study | 第84-86页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications of the present study | 第86-88页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for future research | 第88-91页 |
| Appendix | 第91-92页 |
| Bibliography | 第92-98页 |
