| Precis in Chinese | 第1-5页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第5-8页 |
| Abbreviations | 第8-9页 |
| List of Tables | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-29页 |
| 1．0 Preliminary remarks | 第10-11页 |
| 1．1． Cohesion and coherence as two criteria for successful text | 第11-14页 |
| 1．2 Adverbial conjuncts as markers of textual cohesion and coherence relations | 第14-18页 |
| 1．3． The metadiscourse function of adverbial conjuncts | 第18-20页 |
| 1．4． Problems in learners' use of adverbial conjuncts in composition | 第20-24页 |
| 1．5． Aims of this research | 第24-29页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第29-41页 |
| 2．1 Classification of English adverbial coujuncts | 第29-35页 |
| 2．2 Effects of adverbial conjuncts on reading and composition | 第35-37页 |
| 2．3 Cross-language studies of conjuncts in composition and their findings | 第37-41页 |
| Chapter Three Corpora and Methodology | 第41-57页 |
| 3．1 The methodology of corpus-based linguistic analysis | 第41-46页 |
| 3．2 Corpora | 第46-50页 |
| 3．3 Instrumentation | 第50-55页 |
| 3．4 Research questions | 第55-57页 |
| Chapter Four Findings and Discussions | 第57-93页 |
| 4．1 Main findings: quantitative study | 第57-64页 |
| 4．2 Main findings: qualitative study | 第64-69页 |
| 4．2．1 Conjuncts most frequently used by two groups | 第65-66页 |
| 4．2．2 Conjuncts over-/underused by Chinese learners | 第66-69页 |
| 4．3 A multi-level analysis | 第69-93页 |
| 4．3．1 Stylistic analysis | 第69-74页 |
| 4．3．2 Semantic analysis | 第74-78页 |
| 4．3．3 Relational analysis | 第78-85页 |
| 4．3．4 Pragmatic analysis and other possible influencing factors | 第85-93页 |
| Chapter Five Concluding Remarks | 第93-113页 |
| 5．1 Major findings of this study | 第93-98页 |
| 5．2 Applied significance of this study: Some pedagogicai implications | 第98-104页 |
| 5．3 Theoretical significance of this study: An experiment with methodology | 第104-108页 |
| 5．4 Difficult problems tackled in this research | 第108-110页 |
| 5．5 Suggestions for further research | 第110-113页 |
| Notes | 第113-116页 |
| Appendices | 第116-121页 |
| Bib1iography | 第121-132页 |
