| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-27页 |
| 1．1 The turn from a structural towards a systemic functional view of language | 第15-19页 |
| 1．2 Discourse analysis as a cross-disciplinary study of language | 第19-23页 |
| 1．3 Cohesion, texture and coherence | 第23-24页 |
| 1．4 Hypotheses of dissertation | 第24-26页 |
| 1．5 Organization of chapters | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter Two Context and text | 第27-43页 |
| 2．1 Context | 第27-35页 |
| 2．1．1 Malinowski and his notion of context | 第27-28页 |
| 2．1．2 Firth's development of context of situation | 第28-29页 |
| 2．1．3 Halliday's definition of context | 第29-32页 |
| 2．1．3．1 Context of situation | 第29-30页 |
| 2．1．3．2 Context of culture | 第30-31页 |
| 2．1．3．3 Material situational setting vs context of situation | 第31-32页 |
| 2．1．4 A dynamic view of context in language | 第32-33页 |
| 2．1．5 A cognitive view of context | 第33-35页 |
| 2．2 Discourse and text | 第35-42页 |
| 2．2．1 Definitions of discourse | 第36-38页 |
| 2．2．2 Definitions of text | 第38-40页 |
| 2．2．2．1 Beaugrande & Dressler's definition of text | 第38-40页 |
| 2．2．2．2 Halliday and Hasan's definiton of text | 第40页 |
| 2．2．3 Toward a working definition of text | 第40-42页 |
| 2．3 Summary | 第42-43页 |
| Chapter Three Cohesion, texture and coherence: a prelude | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter Four Thematic and information structures as textural components | 第46-69页 |
| 4．1 Thematic structure and texture | 第46-60页 |
| 4．1．1 A historical overview of theme and rheme | 第46-47页 |
| 4．1．2 Halliday's framework of thematic structure | 第47-49页 |
| 4．1．3 Thematic choice and development of text | 第49-50页 |
| 4．1．4 Thematic progression | 第50-54页 |
| 4．1．5 An improvement on TP theory | 第54-60页 |
| 4．2 Information structure and texture | 第60-67页 |
| 4．2．1 Given and New in Halliday's framework | 第61-64页 |
| 4．2．2 An expansion of Given and New | 第64-66页 |
| 4．2．3 The pattern of focus and the development of text | 第66-67页 |
| 4．3 Summary | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter Five Cohesion as yet another textual component | 第69-102页 |
| 5．1 The concept of cohesion | 第69-75页 |
| 5．2 Cohesion and linguistic context | 第75-77页 |
| 5．3 Cohesion and register consistency | 第77-78页 |
| 5．4． Types of cohesion | 第78-87页 |
| 5．4．1 Reference | 第78-81页 |
| 5．4．2 Substitution and Ellipsis | 第81-83页 |
| 5．4．3 Conjunction | 第83-84页 |
| 5．4．4 Lexical cohesion | 第84-87页 |
| 5．5 Cohesive chain and chain interaction | 第87-88页 |
| 5．6 Cohesive harmony | 第88页 |
| 5．7 Cohesion as discourse semantic systems | 第88-101页 |
| 5．7．1 Identification | 第89-90页 |
| 5．7．2 Negotiation | 第90页 |
| 5．7．3 Conjunction | 第90-91页 |
| 5．7．4 Ideation | 第91页 |
| 5．7．5 A sample analysis of cohesion as a discourse semantic system | 第91-101页 |
| 5．8 Summary | 第101-102页 |
| Chapter Six A cognitive perspective of coherence | 第102-139页 |
| 6．1 Toward a working definition of coherence | 第102-104页 |
| 6．2 Coherence relations | 第104-113页 |
| 6．2．1 Definitions of coherence relations | 第104-109页 |
| 6．2．1．1 Rhetorical structure theory | 第104-106页 |
| 6．2．1．2 A taxonomic approach | 第106-109页 |
| 6．2．2 Coherence relations as theoretical concepts | 第109-113页 |
| 6．3 Mental models as an explanatory principle for coherence relations | 第113-121页 |
| 6．3．1 Language comprehension | 第113-117页 |
| 6．3．2 Between propositions and schemata | 第117-119页 |
| 6．3．3 Beyond language | 第119-121页 |
| 6．4 A relevance theoretical approach to coherence | 第121-134页 |
| 6．4．1 Coherence as a consequence of the search for optimal relevance | 第122-125页 |
| 6．4．2 Reassessing coherence relations: a relevance theoretical approach | 第125-134页 |
| 6．4．2．1 Sequence | 第125-127页 |
| 6．4．2．2 Explanation | 第127-128页 |
| 6．4．2．3 Exemplification | 第128-130页 |
| 6．3．2．4 Restatement | 第130-134页 |
| 6．5 A metaphorical view of coherence | 第134-138页 |
| 6．6 Summary | 第138-139页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusions and suggestions for further studies | 第139-143页 |
| 7．1 Conclusions | 第139-141页 |
| 7．2 Suggestions for | 第141-143页 |
| 7．2．1 The application of texture as a theoretical construct | 第141页 |
| 7．2．2 What's in a mental model? | 第141-143页 |
| Bibliography | 第143-157页 |
