| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract(English) | 第5-8页 |
| Abstract(Chinese) | 第8-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-25页 |
| ·Lead-in Remarks | 第15-16页 |
| ·A Preliminary Characterization of Anaphora | 第16-19页 |
| ·Definition of Anaphora | 第16-17页 |
| ·Classification of Anaphora | 第17-18页 |
| ·Functions of Anaphora | 第18-19页 |
| ·Objectives | 第19-22页 |
| ·Introduction | 第19-20页 |
| ·A General Statement about Discourse Anaphora | 第20-21页 |
| ·Two Central Issues of Discourse Anaphora: Anaphoric Distribution versus Anaphoric Resolution | 第21页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第21-22页 |
| ·A Supplement: Comparison between Reference and Anaphora | 第22页 |
| ·Methodology and Data Collection | 第22-23页 |
| ·Structure of the Current Paper | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第25-35页 |
| ·Introduction | 第25页 |
| ·Syntactic Studies of Anaphora | 第25-28页 |
| ·Binding Theory | 第25-27页 |
| ·Comments on Syntactic Studies | 第27-28页 |
| ·Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Studies of Anaphora | 第28-31页 |
| ·Levinson’s Principles | 第28-30页 |
| ·Huang Yan’s Improvements | 第30-31页 |
| ·Comments on Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Studies | 第31页 |
| ·Cognitive Studies of Anaphora | 第31-34页 |
| ·Chafe’s Contribution | 第32页 |
| ·Prince’s Familiarity Scale | 第32-33页 |
| ·Givenness Hierarchy Proposed by Gundel et al | 第33页 |
| ·Ariel's Accessibility Theory | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第35-45页 |
| ·Introduction | 第35页 |
| ·Nature of Accessibility and the Structure of Memory | 第35-37页 |
| ·Nature of Accessibility | 第35-36页 |
| ·Foundation of Accessibility: Memory Structure | 第36-37页 |
| ·Linguistically Encoded Accessibility | 第37-42页 |
| ·Degree of Accessibility Markers | 第37-38页 |
| ·Accessibility Marking Scale | 第38-40页 |
| ·Encoding Principles of the Accessibility of Referring Expressions | 第40-42页 |
| ·Factors Affecting Accessibility in Discourse | 第42-43页 |
| ·Distance | 第42页 |
| ·Saliency | 第42-43页 |
| ·Competition | 第43页 |
| ·Unity | 第43页 |
| ·Summary | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter Four Distribution of Discourse Anaphora in English Literary Works | 第45-69页 |
| ·Introduction | 第45页 |
| ·Surface Structure and Deep Structure | 第45-46页 |
| ·Anaphoric Distribution in the Surface Structure of Discourse | 第46-59页 |
| ·Anaphoric Distribution in the Inter-clausal Position | 第47-50页 |
| ·Anaphoric Distribution in the Inter-sentential Position | 第50-52页 |
| ·Anaphoric Distribution in the Across-paragraph Position | 第52-56页 |
| ·Anaphoric Distribution in the Across-chapter Position | 第56-58页 |
| ·Summary | 第58-59页 |
| ·Anaphoric Distribution in the Deep Structure of Discourse | 第59-67页 |
| ·Topic and Anaphoric Distribution | 第59-62页 |
| ·Contextual Frame and Anaphoric Distribution | 第62-64页 |
| ·Point of View and Anaphoric Distribution | 第64-67页 |
| ·Summary | 第67页 |
| ·Solution to the Three Research Questions | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第69-71页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第69页 |
| ·Limitations of the Current Study | 第69-70页 |
| ·Possible Future Efforts | 第70-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-74页 |
