| 内容提要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Synopsis | 第10-14页 |
| Introduction | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter One A General Discussion of English Parallelism | 第16-32页 |
| ·Defining English Parallelism | 第16-24页 |
| ·Problems of definition | 第17-18页 |
| ·Surface structure of English Parallelism | 第18-22页 |
| ·Refining English Parallelism | 第22-24页 |
| ·English Parallelism as a rhetorical device | 第24-30页 |
| ·English Parallelism VS Antithesis | 第24-25页 |
| ·English Parallelism VS Zeugma | 第25-26页 |
| ·English Parallelism VS Repetition | 第26-28页 |
| ·English Parallelism VS Climax & Anticlimax | 第28-29页 |
| ·English Parallelism VS Triadic Structure | 第29-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Two Relevance Theory: A Brief Survey | 第32-41页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential communication | 第32-35页 |
| ·The principle of relevance | 第35-37页 |
| ·The role of context and contextual effects | 第37-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Three Relevance and the Style of English Parallelism | 第41-59页 |
| ·A general discussion of style | 第41-44页 |
| ·The notion of style | 第41-42页 |
| ·Major concerns of stylistics | 第42-43页 |
| ·The correlation between stylistics and linguistic theories | 第43-44页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic view on style | 第44-53页 |
| ·Relational view on style | 第44-46页 |
| ·Necessity of style | 第46-50页 |
| ·Ways of achieving poetic effects | 第50-52页 |
| ·Summary | 第52-53页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic view on English Parallelism as a style | 第53-59页 |
| ·Linguistic structure of English Parallelism | 第54-56页 |
| ·Implicatures of English Parallelism | 第56-58页 |
| ·Summary | 第58-59页 |
| Chapter Four Relevance and the Rhetoric of English Parallelism | 第59-69页 |
| ·Relevance and rhetoric | 第59-61页 |
| ·Metaphor in English Parallelism | 第61-63页 |
| ·Humor in English Parallelism | 第63-65页 |
| ·Irony in English Parallelism | 第65-67页 |
| ·Summary | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter Five Relevance and the Stylistic Use of English Parallelism | 第69-81页 |
| ·English Parallelism as an ostensive stimulus | 第69-71页 |
| ·The stylistic use of English Parallelism in public speaking | 第71-75页 |
| ·The Stylistic use of English Parallelism in advertising | 第75-79页 |
| ·Summary | 第79-81页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第81-84页 |
| ·A brief summary of the thesis | 第81-82页 |
| ·The significance of this study | 第82-84页 |
| Bibliography | 第84-88页 |
