| ABSTRACT | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第6-9页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第9-15页 |
| ·A general description of the study | 第9-11页 |
| ·The purpose and significance of the study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Data collection and methodology | 第12-13页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第13-15页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第15-28页 |
| ·Previous studies on discourse markers | 第15-21页 |
| ·Studies abroad | 第15-18页 |
| ·Studies in China | 第18-19页 |
| ·Previous studies of discourse marker oh | 第19-21页 |
| ·Four approaches to discourse markers | 第21-25页 |
| ·The grammatical-pragmatic approach | 第21-22页 |
| ·The coherence-based approach | 第22-24页 |
| ·The cognitive-pragmatic approach | 第24-25页 |
| ·The sociolinguistics approach | 第25页 |
| ·Features and functions of discourse markers | 第25-28页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第28-42页 |
| ·Relevance theory | 第28-35页 |
| ·Cognitive environment and mutual manifestness | 第28-29页 |
| ·Contextual effects | 第29-30页 |
| ·Ostensive-inferential process | 第30-31页 |
| ·The principle of relevance theory | 第31-33页 |
| ·Conceptual and procedural meaning | 第33-35页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretical framework of discourse markers | 第35-42页 |
| ·Discourse markers and procedural encoding | 第35-37页 |
| ·Cognitive motivations for using discourse markers | 第37-39页 |
| ·Discourse markers and contextual effects | 第39-42页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR A RELEVANCE-THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF OH INLARRY KING LIVE | 第42-82页 |
| ·An introduction to Larry King Live | 第42-44页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretical account of the discourse marker oh | 第44-49页 |
| ·Discourse marker oh conveying procedural meaning | 第45页 |
| ·Discourse marker oh functioning in the ostensive-inferential process | 第45-47页 |
| ·Discourse marker oh deriving the contextual effects | 第47-48页 |
| ·Discourse marker oh in search of optimal relevance | 第48-49页 |
| ·Distinct pragmatic functions of discourse marker oh in Larry King Live | 第49-82页 |
| ·Oh as a cognitive state change marker | 第51-59页 |
| ·Oh as an information reformulation marker | 第59-63页 |
| ·Oh as a self-correcting marker | 第60-61页 |
| ·Oh as an other-correcting marker | 第61-63页 |
| ·Oh as a delay marker | 第63-66页 |
| ·Oh as an inferential marker | 第66-70页 |
| ·Oh as a self-inferential marker | 第66-68页 |
| ·Oh as an other-inferential marker | 第68-70页 |
| ·Oh as a face-threatening mitigating marker | 第70-74页 |
| ·Oh as a positive-face threatening mitigating marker | 第71-73页 |
| ·Oh as a negative-face threatening mitigating marker | 第73-74页 |
| ·Oh as an initiating marker | 第74-82页 |
| ·Oh as a topic and question initiating marker | 第75-79页 |
| ·Oh as a response initiating marker | 第79-82页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第82-86页 |
| ·Major findings | 第82-83页 |
| ·Implications of the present study | 第83-85页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further study | 第85-86页 |
| REFERENCES | 第86-92页 |
| APPENDIXES | 第92-99页 |
