| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第8-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-16页 |
| CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION | 第16-22页 |
| 1.1 Research Background and Research Significance | 第16-17页 |
| 1.2 Research Objectives | 第17-18页 |
| 1.3 Research Methodology | 第18-20页 |
| 1.4 Outline of the Research | 第20-21页 |
| Summary | 第21-22页 |
| CHAPTER II. LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第22-37页 |
| 2.1 Speech Act Theory | 第22-26页 |
| 2.1.1 Austin’s Initiation | 第22-24页 |
| 2.1.2 Searle’s Revision and Systematization of SAT | 第24-26页 |
| 2.2 Coherence in Discourse | 第26-30页 |
| 2.2.1 Halliday & Hasan’s View on Coherence | 第26-27页 |
| 2.2.2 Coherence: Semantic and Pragmatic Notions | 第27-28页 |
| 2.2.3 An Illocutionary Development of Coherence | 第28-29页 |
| 2.2.4 A Mental Interaction Between Sender and Receiver | 第29-30页 |
| 2.3 A Combination of Speech Act Theory and Coherence Theory | 第30-31页 |
| 2.4 Overseas Student Health Cover | 第31-33页 |
| 2.4.1 Introduction to Health Insurance and its Contract | 第31-32页 |
| 2.4.2 Previous Study on Health Insurance and OSHC | 第32-33页 |
| 2.5 Speech Act Model of Coherence in Discourse | 第33-36页 |
| Summary | 第36-37页 |
| CHAPTER III. EXPLICIT COHERENCE OF LOCUTIONS IN OSHC | 第37-52页 |
| 3.1 Coherence Through Nonstructural Relations | 第37-47页 |
| 3.1.1 Referential Bonds as Semantic Relations | 第37-39页 |
| 3.1.2 Coherence by Using Elliptical and Substitutive Devices | 第39-41页 |
| 3.1.3 Coherence by Using Conjunctive Relations | 第41-43页 |
| 3.1.4 Coherence by Using Lexical Devices and their Semantic Relations | 第43-47页 |
| 3.2 Coherence through Structural Relations | 第47-51页 |
| 3.2.1 Topical Cohesion in Conversation | 第47-49页 |
| 3.2.2 Structures of Thematic Progression | 第49-50页 |
| 3.2.3 Discourse Types | 第50-51页 |
| Summary | 第51-52页 |
| CHAPTER IV. IMPLICIT COHERENCE OF ILLOCUTIONS IN OSHC | 第52-64页 |
| 4.1 Pragmatic Inference to Fill in Missing Information | 第52-55页 |
| 4.2 Nonlinguistic Context for Missing Links | 第55-60页 |
| 4.2.1 Illocutionary Coherence by Context of Situation | 第56-57页 |
| 4.2.2 Illocutionary Coherence by Context of Culture | 第57-59页 |
| 4.2.3 Illocutionary Coherence by Background Knowledge | 第59-60页 |
| 4.3 Knowledge Structure | 第60-63页 |
| Summary | 第63-64页 |
| CHAPTER V. INTERACTIVE COHERENCE OF PERLOCUTIONS IN OSHC | 第64-71页 |
| 5.1 Interactive Coherence of Perlocutions | 第64页 |
| 5.2 Methods of Achieving Perlocutionary Effects | 第64-70页 |
| 5.2.1 Persuasive Effects of Style | 第65-68页 |
| 5.2.2 Persuasive Effects of Rhetoric | 第68-70页 |
| Summary | 第70-71页 |
| CHAPTER VI. CONLUSIONS | 第71-75页 |
| 6.1 Review of Research Significance | 第71页 |
| 6.2 Review of Research Objectives | 第71页 |
| 6.3 Review of Research Methodology | 第71-72页 |
| 6.4 Major Findings of the Study | 第72页 |
| 6.5 Research Innovations | 第72-73页 |
| 6.6 Limitations of the Study | 第73-74页 |
| Summary | 第74-75页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第75-79页 |
