| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in English | 第4-9页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第9-12页 |
| Abbreviations | 第12-13页 |
| Contents | 第13-17页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第17-30页 |
| ·Preliminary remarks | 第17-18页 |
| ·Current issues on coherence in discourse | 第18-24页 |
| ·The objectives of this study | 第24-25页 |
| ·Methodology | 第25-27页 |
| ·Organization | 第27-30页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第30-83页 |
| ·Introduction | 第30-31页 |
| ·SAT and its application in discourse analysis | 第31-43页 |
| ·Austins’initiation of SAT | 第32-33页 |
| ·Searles’revision and systematization of SAT | 第33-40页 |
| ·Revision of SAT | 第34-37页 |
| ·Indirect speech acts | 第37-38页 |
| ·Intentionality and meaning: the philosophy of mind | 第38-40页 |
| ·SAT in discourse studies | 第40-43页 |
| ·Van Dijks’viewpoint | 第41-42页 |
| ·Vandervekens’idea | 第42-43页 |
| ·Discourse and discourse analysis | 第43-57页 |
| ·Definition of discourse | 第45-49页 |
| ·Function of discourse | 第49-51页 |
| ·Properties of discourse | 第51-55页 |
| ·Defining context | 第55-57页 |
| ·Different views on coherence in discourse | 第57-78页 |
| ·Halliday & Hasans’view on cohesion and coherence | 第58-65页 |
| ·Cohesion and its cohesive ties | 第58-61页 |
| ·Cohesive chain | 第61-63页 |
| ·Cohesive harmony | 第63-65页 |
| ·Coherence: semantic and pragmatic notions | 第65-66页 |
| ·Coherence: an illocutionary development | 第66-69页 |
| ·Coherence: an assumption of the receiver | 第69-72页 |
| ·Coherence: a mental interaction between sender and receiver | 第72-75页 |
| ·Coherence: an inferential process and the by-product of relevance | 第75-78页 |
| ·Summary | 第78-83页 |
| Chapter Three Speech Act Model of Coherence in Discourse | 第83-94页 |
| ·Introduction | 第83页 |
| ·Discourse as speech act | 第83-85页 |
| ·The features of coherence at three levels | 第85-87页 |
| ·The relations of coherence in cognitive operations | 第87-91页 |
| ·summary | 第91-94页 |
| Chapter Four Explicit Coherence in Locutions of discourse | 第94-139页 |
| ·Introduction | 第94-95页 |
| ·Coherence through nonstructural relations | 第95-110页 |
| ·Referential bonds as semantic relations | 第95-97页 |
| ·Elliptical and substitutive devices as lexicalgramatical relations | 第97-99页 |
| ·Roles of conjunctive relations | 第99-101页 |
| ·Lexical devices and their semantic relations | 第101-107页 |
| ·Reiteration as links | 第102-106页 |
| ·Collocations as bonds | 第106-107页 |
| ·Temporal relations as a kind of cohesive device | 第107-110页 |
| ·Coherence through structural relations | 第110-128页 |
| ·Topical cohesion in conversation | 第110-116页 |
| ·1 Topical relexicalization as links | 第111-113页 |
| ·Topic development through exchanges | 第113-116页 |
| ·Structures of thematic progression | 第116-125页 |
| ·Linear progression | 第118-119页 |
| ·Progression with constant theme | 第119-120页 |
| ·Progression with derived theme | 第120-122页 |
| ·Development of a bifurcated rheme | 第122-123页 |
| ·Progression with discontinuous theme | 第123-125页 |
| ·Discourse types and their superstructures | 第125-128页 |
| ·Coherence through phonological devices | 第128-135页 |
| ·Intonational properties and roles | 第128-129页 |
| ·Intonational cohesion | 第129-134页 |
| ·Phonemic cohesion | 第134-135页 |
| ·Summary | 第135-139页 |
| Chapter Five Implicit Coherence in Illocutions of Discourse | 第139-183页 |
| ·Introduction | 第139-140页 |
| ·Pragmatic inference as filling in missing information | 第140-155页 |
| ·Inference in presupposition | 第141-145页 |
| ·Inference in conversational implicatures | 第145-151页 |
| ·Inference in indirect speech acts | 第151-155页 |
| ·Nonlinguistic context as supplying missing links | 第155-168页 |
| ·Illocutionary coherence by context of situation | 第157-160页 |
| ·Illocutionary coherence by context of culture | 第160-164页 |
| ·Genre and its socio-cultural background | 第161-162页 |
| ·Cultural schemata of discourse | 第162-164页 |
| ·Illocutionary coherence by background knowledge | 第164-168页 |
| ·Knowledge structure and its representation | 第168-179页 |
| ·Schemata and coherence | 第169-172页 |
| ·Frames and coherence | 第172-174页 |
| ·Scripts and coherence | 第174-179页 |
| ·Summary | 第179-183页 |
| Chapter Six Interactive Coherence in Perlocutions of Discourse | 第183-227页 |
| ·Introduction | 第183-185页 |
| ·Coherence in sequential interactions | 第185-194页 |
| ·Reinterpreting Searles’view on intention in actual interactive sequence.. | 第185-188页 |
| ·Coherence in interactive moves and exchanges | 第188-194页 |
| ·Coherence between effects of literary text and readers’response | 第194-201页 |
| ·Reinterpreting Austins’view on literary works | 第195-197页 |
| ·Interaction between artistic and aesthetic poles | 第197-201页 |
| ·Methods of achieving perlocutionary effects | 第201-220页 |
| ·Persuasive effects of style | 第202-210页 |
| ·Effects of advertising | 第203-207页 |
| ·Effects of deviation in poetry | 第207-210页 |
| ·Persuasive effects of rhetoric | 第210-220页 |
| ·Metaphor and its interactive mechanism | 第211-217页 |
| ·Personification and its persuasive role | 第217-218页 |
| ·Hyperbole and its persuasive role | 第218-219页 |
| ·Rhetorical question and its persuasive role | 第219-220页 |
| ·Summary | 第220-227页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第227-237页 |
| ·Introduction | 第227页 |
| ·Main points of this study | 第227-233页 |
| ·Open questions of this study | 第233-235页 |
| ·Suggestions for future research | 第235-237页 |
| Bibliography | 第237-251页 |
| 在学期间公开发表论文及著作情况 | 第251页 |
