| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| ·A General Description of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第11页 |
| ·About the Thesis | 第11-14页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Corpus Used in the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Layout of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Inaugural Address and Cohesion Theory | 第14-32页 |
| ·About Inaugural Address | 第14-15页 |
| ·Cohesion Theory | 第15-20页 |
| ·The Development and the Scope of Cohesion Theory | 第15-17页 |
| ·The Notion of Cohesion | 第17-20页 |
| ·The Types of Cohesion | 第20-30页 |
| ·Cohesion by Reference | 第21-23页 |
| ·Cohesion by Substitution and Ellipsis | 第23-25页 |
| ·Cohesion by Conjunction | 第25-26页 |
| ·Lexical Cohesion | 第26-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter 3 Main Types of Cohesion Used in U.S. Selected Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第32-46页 |
| ·Reference Used in U.S. Selected Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第32-38页 |
| ·The Third Person Forms | 第32-34页 |
| ·Demonstrative Reference | 第34-36页 |
| ·Comparative Reference | 第36-38页 |
| ·Substitution and Ellipsis Used in U.S. Selected Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第38-40页 |
| ·Conjunction Used in U.S. Selected Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第40-42页 |
| ·Lexical Cohesion Used in U.S. Selected Presidential Inaugural Addresses | 第42-46页 |
| ·Lexical Reiteration | 第42-44页 |
| ·Collocation | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter 4 Quantitative Analysis and Discussion | 第46-63页 |
| ·The Comparative Study among the Three Sub- corpora | 第46-60页 |
| ·The High Usage of Cohesion by Reference | 第46-53页 |
| ·The Usage of Cohesion by Substitution and Ellipsis | 第53-54页 |
| ·Conjunction and Its Usage in Corpora | 第54-57页 |
| ·The Effect Achieved by Lexical Cohesion | 第57-59页 |
| ·Summary of the Five Types of Cohesion | 第59-60页 |
| ·Comparative Results Between the Inaugural Addresses and the Conversations on IRC | 第60-63页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion and Suggestion | 第63-66页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第63-64页 |
| ·Suggestion | 第64-66页 |
| References | 第66-69页 |
| Publication | 第69-70页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第70-71页 |
| Resume | 第71页 |
