| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Contents | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review on Discourse Coherence | 第11-19页 |
| ·The Development of the Studies on Discourse Coherence | 第11-17页 |
| ·Widdowson’s Research on Coherence | 第13-15页 |
| ·Brown and Yule’s Research on Coherence | 第15-17页 |
| ·Evaluation of the Previous Studies | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Systemic FunctionalApproach to the Study of Coherence | 第19-41页 |
| ·Cohesion and Discourse Coherence | 第19-23页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第19-21页 |
| ·The Relationship Between Cohesion and Discourse Coherence | 第21-23页 |
| ·Situational Context and Coherence | 第23-29页 |
| ·Situational Context | 第23-26页 |
| ·The Relationship Between Situational Context and Coherence | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Relationship Between Situational Context andThree Metafunctions | 第27-29页 |
| ·Discourse CoherenceAchieved inThree Metafunctions | 第29-41页 |
| ·Ideational coherence | 第30-33页 |
| ·Interpersonal Coherence | 第33-36页 |
| ·Textual Coherence | 第36-41页 |
| Chapter Three The RelevanceTheoryApproach to the Study of Coherence | 第41-53页 |
| ·The Origin of RelevanceTheory | 第41-46页 |
| ·Introduction to RelevanceTheory | 第41-44页 |
| ·TheTwo Relevance Principles and theAchievement of Coherence | 第44-46页 |
| ·Ostension and Inference in Communication | 第46-50页 |
| ·Speaker’s Ostension and Listener’s Inference | 第46-48页 |
| ·The Consistencyof Topic in the Communication | 第48-50页 |
| ·Cognitive Environment and Coherence | 第50-53页 |
| Chapter Four Sample Analysis and Evaluation of theTwoApproaches | 第53-77页 |
| ·SampleAnalysis from Systemic Functional Perspective | 第53-67页 |
| ·TheAchievement of Coherence byCohesion | 第53-54页 |
| ·TheAchievement of Coherence in Situational Context | 第54-67页 |
| ·Summary | 第67页 |
| ·SampleAnalysis from Relevance TheoryPerspective | 第67-74页 |
| ·TheAchievement of Coherence from Two Relevance Principles | 第67-71页 |
| ·The Achievement of Coherence fromOstension and Inference in Communication | 第71-72页 |
| ·TheAchievement of Cognitive Coherence | 第72-73页 |
| ·Summary | 第73-74页 |
| ·Comparison Between theTwoApproaches | 第74-75页 |
| ·Personal Suggestion on theTheoretical Framework for the Explanation of Discourse Coherence | 第75-77页 |
| Conclusion | 第77-79页 |
| References | 第79-82页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第82页 |
