| Descriptive Chinese Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| English Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| ·Description of Radio News Reports | 第9-10页 |
| ·Review of Cohesion and Coherence Research | 第10-12页 |
| ·Aims of the Present Study | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter One Cohesion and Coherence | 第14-21页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第14-17页 |
| ·Brief Descriptions | 第14-15页 |
| ·Theoretical Grounds for Cohesion | 第15-17页 |
| ·Coherence | 第17-19页 |
| ·Local Coherence vs Global Coherence | 第18页 |
| ·Text-based vs Reader-based Approach to Coherence | 第18-19页 |
| ·Relations Between Cohesion and Coherence | 第19-20页 |
| ·Summary | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Two Lexico-Grammatical Cohesive Devices in EPR Broadcasting | 第21-37页 |
| ·Classification of Cohesive Devices | 第21-35页 |
| ·Reference | 第21-26页 |
| ·Substitution | 第26-29页 |
| ·Ellipsis | 第29-31页 |
| ·Conjunction | 第31-33页 |
| ·Lexical Devices | 第33-35页 |
| ·A Quantitative Study of Lexico-Grammatical Cohesion in ERP Broadcasting | 第35-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Three Cohesive Devices Represented as Parts in Story Gramma | 第37-63页 |
| ·General Description | 第37-42页 |
| ·Notion of Story Grammar | 第37-38页 |
| ·Historical Reviews of Story Grammar | 第38-40页 |
| ·Functions of Story Grammar | 第40-42页 |
| ·Story Grammar’s Approach to EPR Broadcasting | 第42-59页 |
| ·Instances from News Reports Program | 第42-59页 |
| ·A Quantitative Study of Cohesion Based on Story Grammar Components in EPR Broadcasting | 第59页 |
| ·Complementation between Coherence Based on Cohesive Devices and That Based on Story Grammar Components | 第59-62页 |
| ·Summary | 第62-63页 |
| Conclusion | 第63-67页 |
| ·Findings of the Present Study | 第63页 |
| ·Limitations of EPR Broadcasting from Perspectives of Cohesion and | 第63-65页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study | 第65-66页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Studies | 第66-67页 |
| References | 第67-71页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第71-72页 |
| Appendix A: Publications during the Program | 第72-73页 |
| Appendix B: Informative Chinese Abstract | 第73-76页 |