| 摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第6-7页 |
| Lists of Genres of English News | 第7-8页 |
| List of Figures and Tables | 第8-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Background of the Research | 第11-12页 |
| ·Objective and Significance of the Research | 第12-13页 |
| ·Organization of the Research | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-32页 |
| ·Concepts and Definitions of Discourse Markers | 第15-18页 |
| ·Classification of Discourse Markers | 第18-23页 |
| ·Halliday and Hasan’s Classification | 第18页 |
| ·Schiffrin’s Classification | 第18-20页 |
| ·Pauk’s Classification | 第20页 |
| ·Philip’s Classification | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Classification by Wang Lifei and Zhu Weihua | 第21-22页 |
| ·Summary | 第22-23页 |
| ·Functions of DMs | 第23-24页 |
| ·Related Studies on the Use of Discourse Markers | 第24-30页 |
| ·Related Studies on Discourse Markers Abroad | 第24-28页 |
| ·Related Studies on Discourse Markers at home | 第28-30页 |
| ·Features of English News | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第32-38页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第32-33页 |
| ·Materials | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Corpus of Xinjiang English News | 第33页 |
| ·The Corpus of BBC-home News | 第33-34页 |
| ·Instrument | 第34页 |
| ·Proceduresof Data Processing | 第34-38页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第38-70页 |
| ·Features of DMs in English News in General | 第38-40页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis of DMs Concerning 15 Subcategories in English News | 第40-66页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis of DMs Concerning 10 Subcategories with Great Significant Differences in English News | 第42-58页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis of DMs Concerning 2 Subcategories with Significant Difference in English News | 第58-62页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis of DMs Concerning 3 Subcategories with Little Differences in English News | 第62-66页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis of DMs Concerning Top Ten DMs | 第66-70页 |
| ·Overused DMs in Top Ten Words | 第68-69页 |
| ·Underused DMs in Top Ten Words | 第69-70页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第70-73页 |
| ·Major findings | 第70-71页 |
| ·Implications | 第71-72页 |
| ·Implications for Journalists | 第71页 |
| ·Implications for Pedagogy | 第71-72页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Future Study | 第72-73页 |
| Bibliography | 第73-77页 |
| 硕士期间发表文章 | 第77-78页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第78页 |
