| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 Significance of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| 1.3 Thesis Structure | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-28页 |
| 2.1 Terminology and Definition of Discourse Markers | 第16-18页 |
| 2.2 Previous Studies of Discourse Markers | 第18-23页 |
| 2.2.1 Previous Studies Abroad | 第18-21页 |
| 2.2.2 Previous Studies at Home | 第21-23页 |
| 2.3 Previous Studies of Multimodal Discourse Analysis | 第23-27页 |
| 2.3.1 Introduction to Multimodality and Multimodal Analysis | 第23-24页 |
| 2.3.2 Previous Studies Abroad | 第24-25页 |
| 2.3.3 Previous Studies at Home | 第25-27页 |
| 2.4 Overview of the Films and Television Works' as Discourse | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第28-38页 |
| 3.1 The Theoretical Basis:Systemic-Functional Linguistics | 第28-29页 |
| 3.2 Zhang Delu's Synthetic Theoretical Framework of Multimodal Discourse Analysis | 第29-31页 |
| 3.3 Kress and Leeuwen's(1996, 2006) Theory of Visual Grammar | 第31-38页 |
| Chapter Four Research Methodology | 第38-48页 |
| 4.1 Brief Introduction to House of Cards | 第38-39页 |
| 4.2 Multimodal Corpus Construction | 第39-40页 |
| 4.3 Research Tools | 第40-41页 |
| 4.4 Research Questions | 第41页 |
| 4.5 Identification of Modes being Analyzed | 第41-48页 |
| Chapter Five Data Analysis | 第48-74页 |
| 5.1 The Pragmatic Functions of the Verbal Modes as Discourse Markers | 第48-52页 |
| 5.2 The Interactive Studies Between Intonations and Pragmatic Functions of the Multimodal Usage of So | 第52-67页 |
| 5.2.1 The Initiating Function | 第53-56页 |
| 5.2.2 The Connective Function | 第56-57页 |
| 5.2.3 The Inference Function | 第57-58页 |
| 5.2.4 The Topic Shift Function | 第58-61页 |
| 5.2.5 The Buffering Function | 第61-64页 |
| 5.2.6 The Summary Function | 第64-65页 |
| 5.2.7 The Emotion Function | 第65-67页 |
| 5.3 The Interactive Studies Between Verbal Modes and Facial Expressions of the Multimodal Usage of So | 第67-74页 |
| 5.3.1 Communicability | 第68-69页 |
| 5.3.2 Sociability | 第69-71页 |
| 5.3.3 Emotionality | 第71-74页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第74-78页 |
| 6.1 Findings and Contributions of the Present Study | 第74-77页 |
| 6.2 Limitations and Suggestions for the Further Research | 第77-78页 |
| Bibliography | 第78-84页 |
