| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| Contents | 第10-13页 |
| List of Tables | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Origin ofthe study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Purpose and signifcance of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Organization ofthe paper | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-35页 |
| ·An introduction to discourse markers | 第18-24页 |
| ·Terminology for discourse markers | 第18-19页 |
| ·Working definition | 第19-20页 |
| ·Properies of discourse markers | 第20-22页 |
| ·Classifications of DMs | 第22-24页 |
| ·A review of studies on discourse markers | 第24-31页 |
| ·Studies on discourse markers abroad | 第24-29页 |
| ·Studies on discourse markers at home | 第29-31页 |
| ·A review of studies on DM actually | 第31-34页 |
| ·Lexical analysis ofactually | 第32页 |
| ·Previous studies ofactually | 第32-33页 |
| ·Actually versus in fact | 第33-34页 |
| Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Three A Meta-pragmatic Study of Actually | 第35-45页 |
| ·Linguistic choices | 第35-36页 |
| ·Meta-pragmatic awareness | 第36-37页 |
| ·Discourse markers as indicators of meta-pragmatic awareness | 第37页 |
| ·The syntactic positions of actually | 第37-39页 |
| ·The meta-pragmatic functions of actually | 第39-44页 |
| Summary | 第44-45页 |
| Chapter Four Methodology | 第45-49页 |
| ·Research questions | 第45-46页 |
| ·Corpora and instrument | 第46-47页 |
| ·Data collecting procedure | 第47-48页 |
| Summary | 第48-49页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Discussions | 第49-64页 |
| ·The total frequency of DM actually used in BNC and SECCL | 第49-50页 |
| ·The meta-pragmatic functions of actually used in BNC and SECCL | 第50-52页 |
| ·The collocations of actually in BNC and SECCL | 第52-53页 |
| ·The syntactic positions of actually in BNC and SECCL | 第53-55页 |
| ·Differences and similarities in the use of actually | 第55-57页 |
| ·Differences | 第55-56页 |
| ·Similarities | 第56-57页 |
| ·Possible factors underlying the inappropriate usage of actually | 第57-63页 |
| ·Language proficiency | 第57-58页 |
| ·Pragmatic fossilization | 第58-59页 |
| ·Situational anxiety | 第59-60页 |
| ·Pragmatic transfer | 第60-61页 |
| ·Failure to notice of DMs | 第61-62页 |
| ·Chinese EFL teachers' inappropriate use of DMs | 第62-63页 |
| Summary | 第63-64页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第64-69页 |
| ·Major findings | 第64-65页 |
| ·Implications of the study | 第65-67页 |
| ·Limitations | 第67-68页 |
| ·Suggestions for the further studies | 第68-69页 |
| Works cited | 第69-73页 |
| Publications | 第73页 |
