| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Research Background | 第11-13页 |
| ·Purpose of this Study and Research Questions | 第13-14页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第14-15页 |
| 2 Literature review | 第15-26页 |
| ·Definition of logical connectors | 第15页 |
| ·Classification of Logical Connectors | 第15-18页 |
| ·Functions of logical connectors | 第18页 |
| ·Previous studies on logical connectors | 第18-26页 |
| 3 Methodology | 第26-33页 |
| ·Data collection | 第26-28页 |
| ·Data processing | 第28-33页 |
| 4 Research Results and Discussions | 第33-53页 |
| ·Analysis of Overall Frequency | 第33-37页 |
| ·Features of the use of logical connectors | 第37-41页 |
| ·Top 10 most frequently used logical connectors in the two corpora | 第41-44页 |
| ·Overused and underused logical connectors in CESJ | 第44-48页 |
| ·Comparison of logical semantic relations of AND in the two corpora | 第48-53页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第53-58页 |
| ·Major findings | 第53-54页 |
| ·Implications | 第54-56页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study and suggestions for further research | 第56-58页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第58-59页 |
| References | 第59-66页 |
| Appendix I Halliday & Hasan’s classification of logical connectors | 第66-67页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Samples of logical connector ‘secondly’ identified in IESJ | 第67-70页 |
