| Abstract | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·A general description of discourse markers | 第9-10页 |
| ·The significance and purpose of the thesis | 第10-11页 |
| ·The organization of the thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第13-23页 |
| ·Studies abroad | 第13-19页 |
| ·A general survey of discourse marker | 第13-15页 |
| ·Studies on discourse markers from different approaches | 第15-19页 |
| ·Studies on discourse markers from the coherence-based approach | 第15-16页 |
| ·Studies on discourse markers from the grammatical-pragmatic approach | 第16-17页 |
| ·Studies on discourse markers from the relevance-theoretical approach | 第17-19页 |
| ·Studies in China | 第19-22页 |
| ·Summary | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter 3 Theory Framework | 第23-33页 |
| ·A brief introduction to Relevance Theory | 第23-25页 |
| ·Major principles of Relevance Theory | 第23-24页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential communication | 第24-25页 |
| ·Conceptual information and procedural information | 第25页 |
| ·A relevance-theoretical account of discourse markers | 第25-32页 |
| ·Cognitive motivation of using discourse markers | 第26-27页 |
| ·Discourse markers and an explicature/an implicature | 第27-29页 |
| ·Discourse markers and procedural encoding/conceptual encoding | 第29-30页 |
| ·Discourse markers and contextual effect/processing effort | 第30-32页 |
| ·Summary | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter 4 Research Design | 第33-35页 |
| ·Research questions | 第33页 |
| ·Research methodology | 第33页 |
| ·Data collection | 第33-34页 |
| ·Research procedures | 第34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter 5 Data Analysis and Discussion | 第35-48页 |
| ·The functions of the discourse marker anyway to utterance communications | 第35-39页 |
| ·Analysis of the dictionary definition of anyway | 第35-39页 |
| ·Results of data analysis | 第39页 |
| ·Four distinctive pragmatic functions of the discourse marker anyway in Prison Break | 第39-47页 |
| ·Anyway as a topic change marker | 第40-42页 |
| ·Anyway as a contrastive marker | 第42-43页 |
| ·Anyway as an elaborative marker | 第43-45页 |
| ·Anyway as an inferential marker | 第45-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47-48页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第48-50页 |
| ·Research findings | 第48页 |
| ·Limitation and suggestions for further research | 第48-50页 |
| Bibliography | 第50-54页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第54页 |
