| Abstract | 第1-10页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-18页 |
| ·A Rough Look at Discourse Markers | 第13-14页 |
| ·Rich Researches on Discourse Markers | 第14-16页 |
| ·Objectives of the Present Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Two Defining Discourse Markers | 第18-29页 |
| ·Earlier Definitions | 第18-24页 |
| ·The discourse-coherence-based perspective | 第19-21页 |
| ·The grammatical-pragmatic perspective | 第21-23页 |
| ·The cognitive-pragmatic perspective | 第23-24页 |
| ·Working Definition | 第24-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Three Discourse Markers as Signals Guiding Utterance Interpretation | 第29-51页 |
| ·A Sketch of the Relevance Theory | 第29-32页 |
| ·Researches on Discourse Markers from the Cognitive-Pragmatic Perspective | 第32-47页 |
| ·Cognitive motivation of employing discourse markers | 第33-34页 |
| ·Discourse markers and implicatures or explicatures | 第34-38页 |
| ·Discourse markers and contextual effects | 第38-47页 |
| ·Discourse markers concerned with strengthening | 第38-41页 |
| ·Discourse markers introducing inconsistency | 第41-43页 |
| ·Discourse markers introducing contextual implications | 第43-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47-51页 |
| Chapter Four Discourspe Markers in Linguistic Adaptation | 第51-73页 |
| ·Introduction | 第51-56页 |
| ·Key notions: three properties of language | 第51-53页 |
| ·Four angles of pragmatic investigation | 第53-54页 |
| ·Meaning generation | 第54-56页 |
| ·Discourse Markers as Indicators of Metapragmatic Awareness | 第56-60页 |
| ·Indicators of metapragmatic awareness | 第56页 |
| ·Verschueren's account of discourse markers | 第56-58页 |
| ·Comments on Verschueren's account | 第58-60页 |
| ·Discourse Markers in Linguistic Adaptation | 第60-73页 |
| ·Discourse markers: the result of linguistic choice-making | 第60页 |
| ·Why are discourse markers used? | 第60-63页 |
| ·How do they function in utterance production? | 第63-68页 |
| ·What role do they play in utterance interpretation? | 第68-73页 |
| Chapter Five Concluding Remarks | 第73-83页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第73-79页 |
| ·The Significance of the Present Study | 第79-80页 |
| ·Remaining Problems and Topics for Further Study | 第80-83页 |
| Bibliography | 第83-86页 |
