| List of Abbreviations | 第1-10页 |
| Abstract | 第10-12页 |
| 摘要 | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-17页 |
| ·Research Background | 第14-15页 |
| ·Research Purpose and Significance | 第15页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第17-28页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Coherence Abroad | 第17-22页 |
| ·Influential Theories of Coherence Abroad | 第17-22页 |
| ·Halliday and Hasan’s Cohesion plus Register Theory | 第17-18页 |
| ·Halliday’s and Danes’ Thematic Theories | 第18-19页 |
| ·Van Dijk’s Macrostructure Theory | 第19-20页 |
| ·Mann and Thompson’s Rhetorical Structure Theory | 第20页 |
| ·Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory | 第20-21页 |
| ·Brown and Yule’s Psychological Frame Theory | 第21-22页 |
| ·Other Important Scholars | 第22页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Coherence at Home | 第22-25页 |
| ·Domestic Theoretical Works on Coherence | 第23-24页 |
| ·Domestic Relevant Papers on Coherence | 第24-25页 |
| ·Corpus-based Studies on Jane Austin’s Works | 第25-27页 |
| ·Corpus-based Studies on Jane Austin’s Works Abroad | 第25-26页 |
| ·Domestic Studies on Jane Austin’s Works | 第26-27页 |
| ·A Summary | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第28-41页 |
| ·Coherence Theories in Systemic-functional Linguistics | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Importance of Cohesive Devices in Textual Coherence | 第28-29页 |
| ·Cohesive Framework Designed by Zhang Delu | 第29-30页 |
| ·Self-designed Research Framework in this Thesis | 第30-40页 |
| ·Notions of Explicit and Implicit Coherence | 第32-33页 |
| ·Explicit Coherence | 第32页 |
| ·Implicit Coherence | 第32-33页 |
| ·Clarifications of Other Important Notions | 第33-40页 |
| ·Reference | 第33-35页 |
| ·Substitution | 第35-36页 |
| ·Ellipsis | 第36-37页 |
| ·Conjunction | 第37-38页 |
| ·Repetition | 第38-39页 |
| ·Collocation | 第39-40页 |
| ·A Summary | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter 4 Methodology | 第41-49页 |
| ·The Hypothesis | 第41页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第41-42页 |
| ·Data Collection and Corpus Construction | 第42-46页 |
| ·Data Sources | 第42页 |
| ·Data Collection Principles | 第42-43页 |
| ·Corpora Construction | 第43-46页 |
| ·A Principle in Constructing Corpora | 第43-44页 |
| ·The Observed Corpus NA and Reference Corpus Austin 2 | 第44页 |
| ·The Observed Corpus Austin 1 and Reference Corpus 18-19 | 第44-46页 |
| ·Data Analyses Procedures | 第46-47页 |
| ·Research Tools | 第47-48页 |
| ·Readability Analyzer 1.0 | 第47页 |
| ·AntConc 3.2.4 | 第47-48页 |
| ·A Summary | 第48-49页 |
| Chapter 5 The Corpus-based Analyses and Discussions | 第49-77页 |
| ·The Corpus-based Analyses and Discussions of Explicit Coherence | 第49-67页 |
| ·The Lexical Density Analyses and Discussions of Explicit Coherence | 第49-53页 |
| ·Basic Notions Related with Lexical Density | 第49-50页 |
| ·The Corpus NA as a Case Study | 第50-51页 |
| ·The Corpus Austin 1 as a General Study | 第51-53页 |
| ·Relationships between Lexical Density and Explicit Coherence | 第53页 |
| ·The Keywords Analyses and Discussions of Explicit Coherence | 第53-60页 |
| ·Basic Notions Related with Keywords | 第53-54页 |
| ·The Corpus NA as a Case Study | 第54-58页 |
| ·Keywords Extraction from Corpus NA | 第54-55页 |
| ·Semantic Field Classifications of Keywords in Corpus NA | 第55-57页 |
| ·Relationships between Keywords and Explicit Coherence in Corpus NA | 第57-58页 |
| ·The Corpus Austin 1 as a General Study | 第58-60页 |
| ·Keywords Extraction from Corpus Austin 1 | 第58-59页 |
| ·Semantic Field Classifications of Keywords in Corpus Austin 1 | 第59-60页 |
| ·Relationships between Keywords and Explicit Coherence in Corpus Austen 1 | 第60页 |
| ·The N-grams Analyses and Discussions of Explicit Coherence | 第60-67页 |
| ·Basic Notions Related with N-grams | 第60-61页 |
| ·The Corpus NA as a Case Study | 第61-65页 |
| ·N-grams Extraction from Corpus NA | 第61-63页 |
| ·Semantic Field Classifications of N-grams in Corpus NA | 第63页 |
| ·Relationships between N-grams and Explicit Coherence in Corpus NA | 第63-65页 |
| ·The Corpus Austin 1 as a General Study | 第65-67页 |
| ·The Corpus-based Analyses and Discussions of Implicit Coherence | 第67-75页 |
| ·The Place Field Keywords Analyses and Discussions in Corpus NA | 第67-72页 |
| ·Keywords Extraction and Classifications in Place Field | 第67-69页 |
| ·The Analyses and Discussions of Concordance Plot and Distribution Chart | 第69-71页 |
| ·Relationships between Place Field Keywords and Implicit Coherence | 第71-72页 |
| ·The Textuality Field Keywords Analyses and Discussions in Corpus NA | 第72-75页 |
| ·Keywords Extraction and Classifications in Textuality Field | 第72-73页 |
| ·The Classifications of Collocations of “heroine” and “Udolpho” | 第73-74页 |
| ·Relationships between Textuality Field Keywords and Implicit Coherence | 第74-75页 |
| ·The Verification of the Hypothesis | 第75-76页 |
| ·A Summary | 第76-77页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第77-80页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第77-78页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study | 第78-79页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Studies | 第79-80页 |
| Bibliography | 第80-88页 |
| Appendix I | 第88-90页 |
| Appendix II | 第90-92页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第92-93页 |
| Publications | 第93页 |
