| Abstract in English | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·Justification of This Study | 第11-14页 |
| ·The Relationship Between Language, Thinking pattern and discourse | 第11-13页 |
| ·Thematic Progression –A Formularized Processor Towards Unformularized Language | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Structure of This Study | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-26页 |
| ·Contrastive Linguistics: Past and Present | 第16-19页 |
| ·Foreign Scholars’Contribution to Contrastive Analysis | 第16-17页 |
| ·Chinese Scholars’Contribution to English-Chinese Comparative Studies | 第17-19页 |
| ·Contrastive Discourse Studies | 第19-26页 |
| ·Contrastive Discourse Studies in West Countries | 第19-20页 |
| ·Contrastive Discourse Studies in China | 第20-21页 |
| ·Appraisal of Contrastive Discourse Studies | 第21-26页 |
| ·Under-exploring Contrastive Discourse Studies in West | 第21-22页 |
| ·Burgeoning Contrastive Discourse Studies | 第22-26页 |
| ·Assessment to Content | 第22-24页 |
| ·Assessment to Method | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three Elucidation of Thematic Progression | 第26-42页 |
| ·A Brief Review of Thematic Progression Studies | 第26页 |
| ·Theme and Its Classification | 第26-31页 |
| ·Proposition of Theme | 第27-29页 |
| ·Classification of Theme | 第29-31页 |
| ·Simple Theme | 第29-30页 |
| ·Multiple Themes | 第30-31页 |
| ·Clauses as Theme | 第31页 |
| ·Clarity of Thematic Progression | 第31-42页 |
| ·Classification of Thematic Progression | 第32-40页 |
| ·The Constant Theme Pattern | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Linear Theme Pattern | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Split Rheme Pattern | 第34-35页 |
| ·Derived Themes | 第35-37页 |
| ·The Constant Rheme Pattern | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Intersectant Pattern | 第38-40页 |
| ·Non-thematic Pattern | 第40页 |
| ·Significance of Thematic Progression | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Four Contrastive Studies on Thematic Progression between Chinese and English | 第42-55页 |
| ·Contrastive Studies on Thematic Progression Between Two Languages | 第42-50页 |
| ·Text Data | 第43页 |
| ·Method of Text Analysis | 第43-45页 |
| ·Distributions of Thematic Progression in Chinese and English | 第45-50页 |
| ·Applications of Thematic Progression Contrastive Studies in English-Chinese Translation | 第50-55页 |
| ·Contrastive Discourse Studies and Translation Theory & Practice | 第51-52页 |
| ·Contrastive Thematic Progression Studies and English-Chinese Translation Practice | 第52-55页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第55-57页 |
| References | 第57-61页 |
| Appendix I Argumentative Corpus | 第61-64页 |
| Appendix II Narrative Corpus | 第64-66页 |
| Appendix III Descriptive Corpus | 第66-69页 |
| Appendix IV Expository Corpus | 第69-72页 |
| Appendix V Instructional Corpus | 第72-74页 |
