| 中文摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·Research background | 第11-12页 |
| ·Research questions and topics | 第12页 |
| ·Aim and significance of the study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Data collection and methodology | 第13-14页 |
| ·Thesis structure | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature review | 第16-24页 |
| ·Research on conjunctive adverbs | 第16-18页 |
| ·However as a conjunctive adverb | 第18-19页 |
| ·Related theories | 第19-24页 |
| ·Halliday and Hasan‘s cohesion theory | 第19-21页 |
| ·Halliday‘s metafunctional theoty | 第21-22页 |
| ·Discourse analysis theory | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter 3 Syntactic-functional characteristics of however | 第24-38页 |
| ·Syntactic position | 第25-32页 |
| ·Initial position | 第26-28页 |
| ·Medial position | 第28-31页 |
| ·Final position | 第31-32页 |
| ·Syntactic functions | 第32-38页 |
| ·Thematic structure | 第33-36页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter 4 Semantic functions of however | 第38-45页 |
| ·Adversative | 第38-42页 |
| ·Strong adversative | 第39-40页 |
| ·Weak adversative | 第40-42页 |
| ·Contrastive | 第42-45页 |
| ·Direct contrastive | 第42-43页 |
| ·Weak contrastive | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter 5 Pragmatic functions of however | 第45-55页 |
| ·Focus marker function | 第45-47页 |
| ·Emphatic function | 第47-50页 |
| ·Topic marker function | 第50-51页 |
| ·Pragmatic marker function | 第51-55页 |
| Chapter 6 A case study of the functions of however in the classic novels | 第55-67页 |
| ·A contrastive study of however in British and American classic novels | 第55-62页 |
| ·However in British classic novels | 第56-59页 |
| ·However in American classic novels | 第59-60页 |
| ·Summary | 第60-62页 |
| ·A contrastive study of however in different types of classic novels | 第62-67页 |
| ·However in classic emotion novels | 第62-64页 |
| ·However in classic science fictions | 第64-66页 |
| ·Summary | 第66-67页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第67-71页 |
| ·Findings | 第67-69页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further research | 第69-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-75页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第75页 |
