| 英文摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| List of Abbreviation | 第7-8页 |
| Table of contents | 第8-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10页 |
| List of Tables | 第10-11页 |
| ChapterⅠ Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| 1．1 Research orientation | 第11页 |
| 1．2 A sketch of the current research | 第11-13页 |
| 1．3 Organization of the thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Literature Review | 第14-36页 |
| 2．1 Overview | 第14页 |
| 2．2 Terminology of cohesion and coherence | 第14-20页 |
| 2．2．1 Definition of cohesion and coherence | 第14-15页 |
| 2．2．2 Different outlooks on cohesion and coherence | 第15页 |
| 2．2．3 Coherence as internal to the reader | 第15-16页 |
| 2．2．4 Coherence as internal to the writer | 第16页 |
| 2．2．5 Our Outlook on Coherence | 第16-18页 |
| 2．2．6 World knowledge in discourse coherence | 第18-20页 |
| 2．3 Psycholinguistic Studies | 第20-31页 |
| 2．3．1 Anaphora interpretation | 第20-22页 |
| 2．3．2 Studies on anaphora in Chinese | 第22页 |
| 2．3．2．1 Structure | 第22页 |
| 2．3．2．2 Processing | 第22页 |
| 2．3．3 Studies on anaphora in English | 第22-23页 |
| 2．3．3．1 Structure | 第22-23页 |
| 2．3．3．2 Processing | 第23页 |
| 2．3．4 Cross-linguistic studies on anaphora | 第23-24页 |
| 2．3．5 Cross-linguistic effects and resolution in reading | 第24-25页 |
| 2．3．6 SH model of anaphora | 第25-26页 |
| 2．3．7 Mental models | 第26-27页 |
| 2．3．8 Centering theory | 第27-31页 |
| 2．4 Some empirical literature about anaphora studies | 第31-36页 |
| 2．4．1 Self-paced reading | 第32-34页 |
| 2．4．2 Eye-movement monitoring | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Research design and data collection | 第36-56页 |
| 3．1 Research questions | 第36页 |
| 3．2 Conceptual theoretical framework | 第36-37页 |
| 3．3 Research questlons | 第37-41页 |
| 3．4 Conceptual theoretical framework | 第41-45页 |
| 3．4．1 Field of anaphora processing | 第41页 |
| 3．4．2 Physical field of anaphora realization | 第41-43页 |
| 3．4．2．1 The syntactic role in the physical field of anaphora realization | 第42-43页 |
| 3．4．3 Psychological field of anaphora realization | 第43-44页 |
| 3．4．4 Principles for the process of realization of anaphora in this research | 第44-45页 |
| 3．5 Research design | 第45-47页 |
| 3．5．1 Involved factors | 第45-47页 |
| 3．5．1．1 Discourse center | 第45-46页 |
| 3．5．1．2 Form of anaphor | 第46页 |
| 3．5．1．3 Pragmatic inference | 第46-47页 |
| 3．6 The nature of the design | 第47-50页 |
| 3．6．1 Subjects | 第47-48页 |
| 3．6．2 The design | 第48-50页 |
| 3．6．3 The variables | 第50页 |
| 3．7 Data collection | 第50-56页 |
| 3．7．1 Material | 第50-52页 |
| 3．7．2 Instrumentation | 第52-53页 |
| 3．7．2．1 Administration of the writing task | 第52-53页 |
| 3．7．2．2 Administration of the reading comprehension task | 第53页 |
| 3．7．3 Scoring methods | 第53-56页 |
| 3．7．3．1 Scoring method for the writing task | 第53-55页 |
| 3．7．3．2 Scoring method for the reading comprehension test | 第55-56页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Results and data analysis | 第56-71页 |
| 4．1 Overview | 第56页 |
| 4．2 Data analysis on the reading proficiency pre-test | 第56-71页 |
| 4．2．1 Statistical analysis | 第57-71页 |
| 4．2．1．1 Statistical analysis on the decomposed research question | 第57-61页 |
| 4．2．1．2 Statistical analysis on the first research question | 第61-63页 |
| 4．2．1．3 Statistical analysis on the second research question | 第63-68页 |
| 4．2．1．4 The results of the reading comprehension test | 第68-71页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Discussion | 第71-81页 |
| 5．1 Overview | 第71页 |
| 5．2 Discussion | 第71-77页 |
| 5．2．1 Summary of the major findings | 第71-73页 |
| 5．2．2 Reflection on the use of the third person pronoun both in English & Chinese | 第73-77页 |
| 5．3 Implications | 第77-79页 |
| 5．4 Limitations and recommendations for further research | 第79页 |
| 5．5 Conclusions | 第79-81页 |
| AppendixⅠ | 第81-82页 |
| AppendixⅡ | 第82-90页 |
| AppendixⅢ | 第90-96页 |
| References | 第96-29页 |
| List of Figures | 第29-56页 |
| Figure 1 Centering transition states, rule（2） | 第29-67页 |
| Figure 2 Descriptive of the use of zero subject in Passage 4 | 第67页 |
| Figure 3 Descriptive of the use of zero subject in Passage 5 | 第67-68页 |
| Figure 4 Descriptive of the use of zero subject in Passage 6 | 第68-56页 |
| List of Tables | 第56-101页 |
| Table 1 Descriptions of reading proficiency pre-test | 第56-57页 |
| Table 2 comparison of sample mean with standard means of pronoun in Passage 1 | 第57-59页 |
| Table 3 comparison of sample mean with standard means of pronoun in Passage 2 | 第59-60页 |
| Table 4 comparison of sample mean with standard means of pronoun in Passage 3 | 第60-62页 |
| Table 5 ANOVA results for the comparison of the use of pronouns and names between Chinese EFL learners and native speakers in Passage 1 | 第62页 |
| Table 6 ANOVA results for the comparison of the use of pronouns and names between Chinese EFL learners and native speakers in Passage 2 | 第62-63页 |
| Table 7 ANOVA results for the comparison of the use of pronouns and names between Chinese EFL learners and native speakers in Passage 3 | 第63-64页 |
| Table 8 Correlation of comparison of the use of the third person pronoun as CON． in Passage 1 and Passage 4 | 第64-65页 |
| Table 9 the statistical result of correlation of Passage 2 and Passage 5 | 第65-66页 |
| Table 10 the statistical result of correlation of Passage 3 and Passage 6 | 第66-101页 |
