| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第16-24页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第16-18页 |
| 1.2 Research Significance | 第18-20页 |
| 1.3 Research Questions | 第20-21页 |
| 1.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第24-40页 |
| 2.1 Translation Universals | 第24-25页 |
| 2.2 Studies on Explicitation | 第25-32页 |
| 2.2.1 Definition of explicitation | 第25-27页 |
| 2.2.2 Types of explicitation | 第27-29页 |
| 2.2.3 Further investigation of explicitation | 第29-32页 |
| 2.3 Studies on the Explicitation Hypothesis | 第32-35页 |
| 2.3.1 Problems with the explicitation hypothesis | 第32-33页 |
| 2.3.2 Further investigation of explicitation hypothesis | 第33-35页 |
| 2.4 Studies on the Asymmetry Hypothesis | 第35-38页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Three METHODOLOGY | 第40-52页 |
| 3.1 Corpus Compilation | 第40-46页 |
| 3.1.1 Corpus of Chinese literary texts | 第41-42页 |
| 3.1.2 Corpus of English literary texts | 第42-43页 |
| 3.1.3 Corpus of Chinese non-literary texts | 第43-45页 |
| 3.1.4 Corpus of English non-literary texts | 第45-46页 |
| 3.2 Selection of Causal Connectives | 第46-49页 |
| 3.3 Determining Explicitation and Implicitation | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter Four THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: RISK MANAGEMENT | 第52-62页 |
| 4.1 The Nature of Risk | 第53-54页 |
| 4.2 Types of Risk | 第54-58页 |
| 4.2.1 Credibility risk | 第54-55页 |
| 4.2.2 Uncertainty risk | 第55-56页 |
| 4.2.3 Communicative risk | 第56-58页 |
| 4.3 The Application of Risk Management to Translation Studies | 第58-60页 |
| 4.4 A Model of Risks and Efforts | 第60-62页 |
| Chapter Five RESULTS | 第62-76页 |
| 5.1 Explicitation | 第62-67页 |
| 5.1.1 Explicitation in literary texts | 第62-64页 |
| 5.1.2 Explicitation in non-literary texts | 第64-67页 |
| 5.2 Implicitation | 第67-72页 |
| 5.2.1 Implicitation in literary texts | 第67-70页 |
| 5.2.2 Implicitation in non-literary texts | 第70-72页 |
| 5.3 Asymmetry | 第72-76页 |
| Chapter Six DISCUSSION | 第76-86页 |
| 6.1 Explicitation as Risk Management | 第76-81页 |
| 6.1.1 Explicitation as risk management in literary texts | 第76-79页 |
| 6.1.2 Explicitation as risk management in non-literary texts | 第79-81页 |
| 6.2 Implicitation as Risk Management | 第81-86页 |
| 6.2.1 Implicitation as risk management in literary texts | 第81-82页 |
| 6.2.2 Implicitation as risk management in non-literary texts | 第82-86页 |
| Chapter Seven CONCLUSION | 第86-90页 |
| 7.1 Major Findings of the Research | 第86-88页 |
| 7.2 Limitations of the Present Study | 第88页 |
| 7.3 Advice for Future Studies | 第88-90页 |
| REFERENCES | 第90-100页 |
| 附录： 作者在攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第100页 |
