| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Research Background | 第11-12页 |
| ·Objectives and Significance of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Importance of Adverbial Connectors in IMC | 第13页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-29页 |
| ·Relevant Theories of Corpus Linguistics | 第15-17页 |
| ·Definition of Corpus and Corpus Linguistics | 第15-16页 |
| ·Corpus Design and Compilation | 第16页 |
| ·Corpus Analysis | 第16-17页 |
| ·Cohesion and Coherence | 第17-19页 |
| ·Definition and Classification of Adverbial Connectors | 第19-26页 |
| ·Classification of Adverbial Connectors | 第20-26页 |
| ·Classification of Adverbial Connectors in the Present Study | 第26-27页 |
| ·Sentence Positions of Adverbial Connectors | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第29-34页 |
| ·Corpus-based Study | 第29-30页 |
| ·Corpora Used in This Study | 第30-31页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第31-34页 |
| ·Tools for Data Analyzing | 第31-32页 |
| ·Retrieval Procedure | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Analysis | 第34-58页 |
| ·Classification of Adverbial Connectors in the Present Study | 第34-37页 |
| ·Top 15 High-frequency Adverbial Connectors in the Two Corpora | 第37-39页 |
| ·Analysis of Different Semantic Types of Adverbial Connectors in the Two Corpora | 第39-42页 |
| ·Adyerbial Connectors under Each Category in the Two Corpora | 第42-52页 |
| ·Distribution of Enumeration and Addition Adverbial Connectors | 第42-44页 |
| ·Distribution of Result/inference Adverbial Connectors | 第44-45页 |
| ·Distribution of Summation Adverbial Connectors | 第45-47页 |
| ·Distribution of Apposition Adverbial Connectors | 第47-48页 |
| ·Distribution of Transition Adverbial Connectors | 第48-49页 |
| ·Distribution of Contrast/concession Adverbial Connectors | 第49-52页 |
| ·Summary | 第52-53页 |
| ·Supplementary to the Adverbial Connectors | 第53-55页 |
| ·Distribution of Sentence Positions of Adverbial Connectors | 第55-58页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusions | 第58-60页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第58-59页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study | 第59-60页 |
| References | 第60-62页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第62-63页 |
| Resume | 第63页 |
