| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-17页 |
| ·OBJECT OF THIS STUDY | 第12-13页 |
| ·MOTIVATION OF THIS STUDY | 第13-14页 |
| ·PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY | 第14页 |
| ·THEORETICAL APPROACH | 第14-15页 |
| ·DATA COLLECTION AND METHODOLOGY | 第15页 |
| ·ORGANIZATION OF THIS THESIS | 第15-17页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-32页 |
| ·STUDIES ON ENGLISH DEMONSTRATIVES | 第17-24页 |
| ·Textual Approach to Demonstratives | 第17-19页 |
| ·Pragmatic Approach to Demonstratives | 第19-21页 |
| ·Cognitive Approaches to Demonstratives | 第21-24页 |
| ·STUDIES ON CHINESE DEMONSTRATIVES | 第24-29页 |
| ·STUDIES ON THE CONTRAST OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE DEMONSTRATIVES | 第29-30页 |
| ·COMMENT | 第30-32页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THE THEORETICAL GUIDE | 第32-46页 |
| ·SUBJECTIVITY IN LANGUAGE | 第32-39页 |
| ·Contributions and Limitations of AT | 第32-34页 |
| ·The Role of Subjectivity in Discourse | 第34-35页 |
| ·Subjectivity in CG | 第35-39页 |
| ·A REFERENCE POINT MODEL OF DEMONSTRATIVES | 第39-44页 |
| ·HYPOTHESES | 第44-45页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第45-46页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR EXPRESSIVE FUNCTION OF DEMONSTRATIVES IN CHINESE | 第46-69页 |
| ·TWO CASES OF POV | 第46-47页 |
| ·DEMONSTRATIVES IN CATAPHORA | 第47-56页 |
| ·Demonstratives in the Beginning of Discourse | 第47-48页 |
| ·Proximal Demonstratives | 第48-50页 |
| ·Distal Demonstratives | 第50-52页 |
| ·Subjectivity of Demonstratives | 第52-54页 |
| ·POV Effects on Demonstratives | 第54-56页 |
| ·DEMONSTRATIVES IN COREFERENCE | 第56-68页 |
| ·A Demonstrative with the First Person Pronoun | 第57-61页 |
| ·A Demonstrative with the Second Person Pronoun | 第61-64页 |
| ·The Proximal Demonstrative with the First/Second Person Pronoun | 第64页 |
| ·A Demonstrative with the Third Person Pronoun | 第64-67页 |
| ·POV Effects on the Expression of Demonstrative with a Personal Pronoun | 第67-68页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第68-69页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第69-71页 |
| ·CONCLUSIONS | 第69-70页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS | 第70-71页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第71-73页 |