| 中文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第7-11页 |
| ·Reasons for Choosing the Present Topic | 第7-8页 |
| ·Feasibility of This Research | 第8-9页 |
| ·The Objectives and Study Method of the Thesis | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter Two Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Style | 第11-16页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics | 第11-13页 |
| ·The Interpretation of Field Dependence-Independence Cognitive Style | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter Tree A Brief Introduction to Prose | 第16-19页 |
| ·The Concept of Prose | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Features of Prose | 第17页 |
| ·The Classification of Prose | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Four A General Study of Text Coherence | 第19-29页 |
| ·The Working Definition of Text | 第19页 |
| ·A Literal Retrospection of Text Coherence | 第19-23页 |
| ·Cohesion, Register and Coherence | 第23-27页 |
| ·The Concept and Scope of Cohesion | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Role of Register in Text Coherence | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Notion of Coherence | 第25-27页 |
| ·Prose Coherence | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Five Contrastive Studies of Prose Coherence and Cognitive style between English and Chinese | 第29-53页 |
| ·Hypotactic Coherence and Paratactic Coherence | 第29-39页 |
| ·Hypotaxis and Parataxis | 第29-31页 |
| ·Differences of Cohesive Devices between English and Chinese Prose | 第31-37页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Some Major Cohesive Devices | 第31-34页 |
| ·Contrastive Studies of Cohesive Devices between English and Chinese Prose | 第34-37页 |
| ·Cognitive Styles Reflected from Hypotactic Coherence and Paratactic Coherence | 第37-39页 |
| ·Salient Sequence Coherence and Natural Sequence Coherence | 第39-45页 |
| ·A General Contrast between English and Chinese Sentence Patterns | 第39-41页 |
| ·Salient Sequence Coherence of English Prose and Natural Sequence Coherence of Chinese Prose | 第41-42页 |
| ·Cognitive Styles Reflected from Salient Sequence Coherence and Natural Sequence Coherence | 第42-45页 |
| ·View of Focal Point Coherence and View of Scattering Point Coherence | 第45-51页 |
| ·Subordinate Structure and Coordinate Structure | 第45-47页 |
| ·Logical Paragraph Coherence and Emotional Paragraph Coherence | 第47-50页 |
| ·Cognitive Styles Reflected from View of Focal Point Coherence and View of Scattering Point Coherence | 第50-51页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第53-55页 |
| ·Summery of the Thesis | 第53页 |
| ·Contribution of the Thesis | 第53-54页 |
| ·Limitations of the Thesis | 第54-55页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第55-56页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第56-58页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第58-60页 |
| Bibliography | 第60-64页 |
| Achievements | 第64页 |
