| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第8-10页 |
| ·Reasons for selecting this topic | 第8-9页 |
| ·The aim of the current work | 第9页 |
| ·The organization of the chapters | 第9-10页 |
| 2 A general introduction to corpora and discourse connectives | 第10-20页 |
| ·Corpora | 第10-14页 |
| ·Definition of corpora | 第10页 |
| ·Types of corpora | 第10-12页 |
| ·The reasons for compilation of corpus | 第12-13页 |
| ·Corpus search and retrieval software | 第13页 |
| ·Concordances | 第13-14页 |
| ·Discourse connectives | 第14-20页 |
| ·Definition of discourse connectives | 第15-16页 |
| ·The classification of discourse connectives | 第16-18页 |
| ·Some other characteristics of discourse connectives | 第18-20页 |
| 3 Past research on discourse connectives | 第20-33页 |
| ·Coherence theory and discourse connectives | 第20-25页 |
| ·The theory of coherence | 第20-21页 |
| ·Coherence-based analysis of discourse connectives | 第21-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-25页 |
| ·Relevance theory and discourse connectives | 第25-28页 |
| ·The theory of relevance | 第25-26页 |
| ·Relevance-based analysis of discourse connectives by Blakemore | 第26-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| ·Coherence-based approach v.s. Relevance-based approach | 第28-29页 |
| ·Practical work done by Chinese researchers on discourse connectives | 第29-33页 |
| ·Work done manually | 第29-31页 |
| ·Work done by using corpora | 第31-32页 |
| ·Creativity of the current work | 第32-33页 |
| 4 Methodology | 第33-45页 |
| ·Compilation of Corpus | 第33-34页 |
| ·Designation of discourse connectives | 第34-35页 |
| ·Data Processing | 第35-37页 |
| ·Results | 第37-45页 |
| 5 Data Analysis and Discussion | 第45-59页 |
| ·Discussion of the statistical outcome in table 4.3, table 4.4 and table 4.5 | 第45页 |
| ·Discussion of the statistical outcome from the Chi-square test | 第45-55页 |
| ·Discussion of the overuse of enumative, summative and distractive and a category of inferential connectives | 第46-50页 |
| ·Discussion of the overuse of an additive category of connectives | 第50-54页 |
| ·Discussion of the underuse of a group of formal connectives by learners | 第54-55页 |
| ·Two case studies on and and but | 第55-59页 |
| ·Investigation of and | 第55-56页 |
| ·Investigation of but | 第56-57页 |
| ·A brief discussion | 第57-59页 |
| 6 Conclusion | 第59-63页 |
| ·Major findings of the current work | 第59-60页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications of the current work | 第60-61页 |
| ·Limitations of the current work and suggestions for further research | 第61-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-65页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表学术论文情况 | 第65-66页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第66-67页 |
| 大连立功大学学位论文版权使用授权书 | 第67页 |
