| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| ·Research background | 第10-11页 |
| ·The reasons for choosing Maritime English in this thesis | 第11-12页 |
| ·Methods and research questions of the study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Overview of the thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-32页 |
| ·Definition of conjunct | 第14-16页 |
| ·Lexical density | 第16-17页 |
| ·Lexical frequency | 第17-18页 |
| ·Positional distribution of conjuncts | 第18-20页 |
| ·Semantic classifications of conjuncts | 第20-27页 |
| ·Halliday and Hasan's classification | 第20-22页 |
| ·Revised classification by Halliday | 第22-23页 |
| ·Quirk etal.'s classification | 第23-24页 |
| ·Biber etal.'s classification | 第24-26页 |
| ·Chalker's classification | 第26-27页 |
| ·Dai Weidong etal.'s classification | 第27页 |
| ·Conjuncts in the present study | 第27-28页 |
| ·Previous studies of conjuncts | 第28-32页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第32-43页 |
| ·Corpora used in the present study | 第32-37页 |
| ·MEC corpus | 第32-35页 |
| ·BNC corpus | 第35-37页 |
| ·Instruments for the study | 第37-39页 |
| ·Processing procedure | 第39-43页 |
| ·Determining of the sample items | 第39页 |
| ·Identification of conjuncts | 第39-43页 |
| Chapter Four Data Analysis and Discussion | 第43-60页 |
| ·Analysis of lexical density of conjuncts | 第43-46页 |
| ·Analysis of lexical frequency of conjuncts | 第46-51页 |
| ·Top 10 most frequently used conjuncts in the two corpora | 第46-49页 |
| ·More/Less frequently used conjuncts in MEC | 第49-51页 |
| ·Analysis of positional distribution of conjuncts | 第51-54页 |
| ·Analysis of semantic distribution of conjuncts | 第54-60页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第60-64页 |
| ·Major findings of the study | 第60-61页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications of the study | 第61-62页 |
| ·Suggestions for the future study | 第62-64页 |
| References | 第64-68页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ:The Distribution of Conjuncts in the Two Corpora | 第68-72页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ:The Distribution of the Position of the Conjuncts in the Two Corpora | 第72-75页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ:The Programmes Used to Remove Codes of Corpus BNC | 第75-79页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第79-80页 |
| Resume | 第80页 |
