| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter 1 An Overview of Relevant Studies | 第8-37页 |
| ·Coherence in Text as Result | 第8-22页 |
| ·Halliday & Hasan | 第8-17页 |
| ·Thematic Progression | 第17-20页 |
| ·van Dijk & Kintsch | 第20页 |
| ·De Beaugrande & Dressler | 第20-22页 |
| ·Coherence in Text as Process | 第22-27页 |
| ·Adjacency Pairs | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Cooperative Principle | 第23-26页 |
| ·Widdowson | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Degrees of Coherence | 第27-33页 |
| ·Schemata Model | 第27-31页 |
| ·Givon | 第31-33页 |
| ·Summary | 第33-37页 |
| ·Text and Discourse | 第33页 |
| ·About Coherence in Text as Product | 第33-34页 |
| ·About Coherence in Text as Process | 第34-37页 |
| Chapter 2 A Relevance-based Approach to Coherence | 第37-46页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Relevance Theory | 第37-39页 |
| ·A Relevance-based Approach to Coherence | 第39-42页 |
| ·Coherence of Propositional Content | 第39-40页 |
| ·Coherence of Contextual Effect | 第40-42页 |
| ·A Relevance-based Explanation of Some Problems Concerning Coherence | 第42-45页 |
| ·Coherence in One-sentence Text | 第42-43页 |
| ·Coherence in Daily language | 第43-44页 |
| ·Coherence and the Efficiency Principle | 第44-45页 |
| ·Summary | 第45-46页 |
| Chapter 3 The Modified Relevance-based Approach to Coherence | 第46-65页 |
| ·Language in Acceptable Texts | 第46-49页 |
| ·Coherence is Mental Activity | 第46-47页 |
| ·Coherence is Evaluation | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Modified Relevance-based Approach to Coherence | 第49-57页 |
| ·Inconsistence between Acceptable Texts and the Relevance-based Approach | 第49-51页 |
| ·Modification of the Relevance-based Approach | 第51-57页 |
| ·Other Factors influencing Coherence | 第57-62页 |
| ·Contents of Contextual Assumptions | 第58-60页 |
| ·Contents of Text | 第60-62页 |
| ·Summary | 第62-65页 |
| Chapter 4 Conclusion | 第65-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-71页 |
