| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| English Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| ·The aim of this thesis | 第9页 |
| ·Literature review | 第9-13页 |
| ·Layout of this thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Reference and Accessibility | 第15-28页 |
| ·Reference | 第15-20页 |
| ·Reference types in English and Chinese | 第15-18页 |
| ·Anaphora | 第18-20页 |
| ·Accessibility | 第20-28页 |
| ·Degree of accessibility | 第20-22页 |
| ·Three criteria for potential accessibility | 第22-23页 |
| ·Discourse factors affecting accessibility of antecedents | 第23-28页 |
| ·Distance between antecedent and anaphor | 第24-25页 |
| ·Number of competitors for the role of antecedent | 第25页 |
| ·Importance of topicality in antecedent assignments | 第25-26页 |
| ·Role of frames in identifying antecedent | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Three English 'referring it' and its Chinese Counterpart ta | 第28-38页 |
| ·The use of it | 第28-30页 |
| ·The use of ta | 第30-33页 |
| ·Differences and similarities between it and ta | 第33-34页 |
| ·The possibility of it being realized as ta | 第34-35页 |
| ·Other forms in Chinese that can function like English it | 第35-37页 |
| ·zhe or na(+NP) | 第35-36页 |
| ·zero | 第36-37页 |
| ·Summary | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter Four The Realization of it in Chinese | 第38-63页 |
| ·as ta | 第38-44页 |
| ·in topic/subject position | 第38-40页 |
| ·in object position | 第40-41页 |
| ·subject it realized as object ta | 第41-43页 |
| ·it as ta as the object of the ba-construction | 第43-44页 |
| ·as zhe/na | 第44-51页 |
| ·as zhe/na+NP | 第51-55页 |
| ·as zero | 第55-60页 |
| ·when it functions as subject/topic | 第57-58页 |
| ·when it functions as object of a verb | 第58-59页 |
| ·when it functions as object of a preposition | 第59-60页 |
| ·as zero+NP | 第60-62页 |
| ·Summary | 第62-63页 |
| Chapter Five The Application of the Findings to E-C Translation | 第63-73页 |
| ·subject-prominent vs. topic-prominent in E-C Translation | 第63-67页 |
| ·English it vs. Chinese NP repetition | 第67-68页 |
| ·Use of zero anaphor as object in Chinese | 第68-70页 |
| ·it as a superfluous ta as object in Chinese | 第70页 |
| ·it misused as zhe/na | 第70-72页 |
| ·Summary | 第72-73页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第73-75页 |
| Sources of data | 第75-76页 |
| Bibliography | 第76-79页 |
