| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-12页 |
| Contents | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter1 Introduction | 第15-20页 |
| ·The Proposal of the Question | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Necessity and Feasibility of this Study | 第16-18页 |
| ·Objective of the Study | 第18页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter2 Literature Review | 第20-29页 |
| ·Previous Studies on English Clefts and Pseudo-clefts | 第20-24页 |
| ·Traditional Studies | 第20-21页 |
| ·Transformational Studies | 第21-22页 |
| ·Functional Studies | 第22-24页 |
| ·Information-based Approaches | 第23页 |
| ·Discourse-oriented Approaches | 第23-24页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Chinese Clefts and Pseudo-clefts | 第24-27页 |
| ·Constitution of Chinese Cleft Construction | 第24-25页 |
| ·Syntactic Status of "Shi" | 第25-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter 3 Clefts and Pseudo-clefts:Definition,Formal Properties and Functions | 第29-37页 |
| ·The Structure of Clefts and Pseudo-clefts | 第29-32页 |
| ·English Clefts and Pseudo-clefts | 第29-31页 |
| ·Chinese Clefts and Pseudo-clefts | 第31-32页 |
| ·Nature of Clefts/Pseudo-clefts | 第32-33页 |
| ·Functions of Clefts and Pseudo-clefts | 第33-35页 |
| ·Formal Properties of Cleft and Pseudo-cleft Constructions | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter 4 Theoretical Framework | 第37-41页 |
| ·The Syntactic Form of the Focus | 第37页 |
| ·Metafunctions | 第37-38页 |
| ·Theme/Rheme | 第38-39页 |
| ·Information | 第39页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter 5 Methodology | 第41-49页 |
| ·Main Methodology | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Marking and Selection of the Relevant Samples | 第43-49页 |
| ·Primary Selection | 第44-47页 |
| ·Indexes(types)for English Cleft and Pseudo-cleft Sentences | 第44-47页 |
| ·Indexes(types)for Chinese Cleft and Pseudo-cleft Sentences | 第47页 |
| ·The Prospective Results from the Primary Selection | 第47页 |
| ·Secondary Selection | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter 6 Results and Analysis | 第49-87页 |
| ·Primary Selection | 第49-55页 |
| ·Data from the English Corpus | 第49-52页 |
| ·Data from the Chinese Corpus | 第52-54页 |
| ·Summary of the Primary Selection | 第54-55页 |
| ·Secondary Selection | 第55-76页 |
| ·The Classes of the "Focus" | 第55-61页 |
| ·The Data and the Classification of "Unmarked" and "Marked" Structures | 第58-60页 |
| ·Analysis of the Configuration | 第60-61页 |
| ·The Analysis of "Focus" | 第61-69页 |
| ·Analysis of Some Samples | 第69-76页 |
| ·English Pseudo-clefts | 第69-71页 |
| ·English Clefts | 第71-73页 |
| ·Chinese Pseudo-clefts | 第73-75页 |
| ·Chinese Clefts | 第75-76页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis of the Cohesive Devices in Clefts and Pseudo-clefts | 第76-87页 |
| ·Reference | 第77-79页 |
| ·Ellipsis | 第79-80页 |
| ·Substitution | 第80-82页 |
| ·Conjunction | 第82-83页 |
| ·Lexical Cohesion | 第83-85页 |
| ·Repetition | 第83-84页 |
| ·Synonymy and Antonymy | 第84-85页 |
| ·Collocation | 第85页 |
| ·Summary | 第85-87页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第87-91页 |
| ·Generalization and Implication | 第87-89页 |
| ·Limitations of This Study and the Suggestions for Further Studies | 第89-91页 |
| Bibliography | 第91-94页 |
| List of Tables/Diagrams/Charts | 第94-96页 |
| List of the Examples and the Corresponding Pinyin and Translation for the Chinese ones | 第96-101页 |
| 附件 | 第101页 |
