| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| 提要 | 第6-10页 |
| List of Figures and Tables | 第10-12页 |
| Annotations | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-21页 |
| ·Textbook-writing, syllabus and curriculum | 第13-17页 |
| ·Survey of applied linguistics research of discourse analysis | 第17-19页 |
| ·Reviews on current college English textbooks and concerning research | 第19-20页 |
| ·Layout of the thesis | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter 2 Value of discourse means in textbook writing | 第21-44页 |
| ·Discourse means in language communication | 第21-32页 |
| ·Definition of discourse and discourse means | 第21-25页 |
| ·Discourse | 第21-23页 |
| ·Discourse means | 第23-25页 |
| ·Discourse topic and structure | 第25-27页 |
| ·Cohesion and coherence in discourse | 第27-32页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第27-29页 |
| ·Coherence | 第29-31页 |
| ·The relationship between cohesion and coherence | 第31-32页 |
| ·Discourse connectives | 第32-40页 |
| ·Definition of discourse connectives | 第32-35页 |
| ·Functions of discourse connectives | 第35-37页 |
| ·Types of discourse connectives | 第37-40页 |
| ·Chinese college students’awareness of discourse connectives | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter 3 Analysis of sample adversative connectives | 第44-67页 |
| ·Definition and classification of adversatives | 第44-46页 |
| ·Sample adversatives analysis | 第46-57页 |
| ·Adversative but | 第48-50页 |
| ·Adversative however | 第50-52页 |
| ·Adversative although/though/even though/even if | 第52-53页 |
| ·Adversative despite/in spite of | 第53-54页 |
| ·Adversative nevertheless/nonetheless | 第54-56页 |
| ·Adversative on the contrary/by contrast/in contrast | 第56-57页 |
| ·Adversative whereas | 第57页 |
| ·Status of college English students’use of sample adversatives | 第57-66页 |
| ·Adversative but | 第58-59页 |
| ·Adversative however | 第59-60页 |
| ·Adversative although/though/even though/even if | 第60-62页 |
| ·Adversative despite/in spite of | 第62-63页 |
| ·Adversative nevertheless/nonetheless | 第63-64页 |
| ·Adversative on the contrary/by contrast/in contrast | 第64-65页 |
| ·Adversative whereas | 第65-66页 |
| ·Summary | 第66-67页 |
| Chapter 4 Data analysis of sample adversatives in college English textbooks | 第67-88页 |
| ·Model efficiency analysis | 第67-70页 |
| ·Source sufficiency analysis | 第70-81页 |
| ·Comparative analysis of however | 第73-74页 |
| ·Comparative analysis of although/though/even though/even if | 第74-77页 |
| ·Comparative analysis of despite/in spite of | 第77-78页 |
| ·Comparative analysis of nevertheless/nonetheless | 第78-80页 |
| ·Comparative analysis of on the contrary/by contrast/in contrast | 第80页 |
| ·Comparative analysis of whereas | 第80-81页 |
| ·Summary | 第81页 |
| ·Chain saliency analysis | 第81-86页 |
| ·Saliency of new words | 第82-85页 |
| ·Saliency of known but still in need of occasional rehearsal adversatives | 第85-86页 |
| ·Saliency of but | 第86页 |
| ·Summary | 第86-88页 |
| Chapter 5 Implication | 第88-90页 |
| References | 第90-96页 |
| 论文独创性声明 | 第96页 |
| 论文使用授权声明 | 第96-97页 |
