| Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第6-7页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 2 Halliday's Thematic Structure and Danes'Thematic Progression Patterns | 第10-30页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to the Development of the Thematic Structure | 第10-11页 |
| ·Mathesius's Conception of Theme | 第10页 |
| ·Quirk's Research about Theme: Thematization | 第10-11页 |
| ·Halliday's Thematic Theory and Its Contribution to Text Analysis | 第11-21页 |
| ·Foundation of Thematic Theory | 第11-12页 |
| ·Halliday's Definition of Theme | 第12-13页 |
| ·Halliday's Viewpoint on Constituents Taking the Roles of Themes | 第13页 |
| ·Halliday's Classification of Theme | 第13-16页 |
| ·Simple, Multiple and Clausal Theme | 第13-15页 |
| ·Other Types of Theme | 第15-16页 |
| ·Theme and Transitivity System | 第16-19页 |
| ·Material Process | 第16-17页 |
| ·Mental Process | 第17-18页 |
| ·Relational Process | 第18页 |
| ·Behavioral Process | 第18页 |
| ·Verbal Process | 第18-19页 |
| ·Existential Process | 第19页 |
| ·Position of Thematic Structure in Halliday's Language System Network | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Contribution of Halliday's Thematic Theory to Text Analysis | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Patterns of Thematic Progression | 第21-27页 |
| ·Framework for Current Study | 第27-30页 |
| ·Aspects of Analysis | 第27页 |
| ·Data and Method of Analysis | 第27-30页 |
| Chapter 3 Textual Organization in English and Chinese Academic Prose Texts | 第30-61页 |
| ·Constituents as themes | 第30-36页 |
| ·The Typical Roles of Theme | 第36-38页 |
| ·Type of Theme | 第38-45页 |
| ·The distribution of the three types of themes | 第38页 |
| ·Multiple Themes | 第38-39页 |
| ·Clausal Theme | 第39-45页 |
| ·Themes Overlapping Process Participants | 第45-46页 |
| ·Theme and Voice | 第46-49页 |
| ·Thematic Progression | 第49-61页 |
| Chapter 4 Conclusion and Application | 第61-65页 |
| Publicly Published Theses during the Postgraduate Study | 第65-66页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第66-67页 |
| References | 第67-73页 |
| Appendix | 第73-85页 |
