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华南理工大学学位论文原创性声明及版权使用授权书
Transcription Glossary
Chapter 1 Introduction to the present study
1.1 The theoretical background of the present study
1.1.1 What is ‘discourse'
1.1.2 Cohesion
1.1.3 Coherence
1.1.4 Discourse connectives
1.2 The contextual background of the present study
1.3 The rationale of the present study
1.4 The organization of this thesis
1.5 Summary of this chapter
Chapter 2 Literature review of studies of discourse connectives
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Spoken and written discourse
2.3 Discourse connectives and discourse coherence
2.3.1 Discourse connectives and ‘cohesion' theory
2.3.2 Discourse markers
2.4 Approaches to the study of discourse connectives
2.4.1 Coherence-based approach
2.4.2 Relevance theoretic approach
2.4.3A grammatical-pragmatic perspective
2.5 Empirical studies of individual or small sets of discourse connectives
2.6 Studies of discourse connectives and SLA
2.7 Recent studies of discourse connectives in China
2.8 Summary of this chapter
Chapter 3 Methodology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Transcription convention
3.3 Subjects
3.3.1The CET-SET
3.3.2 The CET
3.4 Procedure
3.5 Summary of this chapter
Chapter 4 Analysis of the data
4.1 Introduction
4.2 General comparison between discourse connectives in spoken and written English discourse
4.2.1 Cohesive connectives
4.2.2 Analysis of and, but, so
4.2.3 Discourse markers
4.3 Specific comparison between discourse connectives used by students at different levels
4.3.1 Spoken discourse
4.3.2 Written discourse
4.4 Summary of this chapter
Chapter 5 Errors in the use of discourse connectives and the causes
5.1 Errors and their causes in spoken discourse
5.2 Errors and their causes in written discourse
5.3 Summary of this chapter
Chapter 6 Findings and conclusions
6.1 Findings
6.1.1 Findings about the general characteristics of discourse connectives
6.1.2 Findings about the features of individual discourse connectives
6.2 Answers to the research questions
6.3 Limitations of the present study
6.4 Directions for further research
6.5 The pedagogical implications of the present study
Bibliography
Paper published during my studies for the MA degree
Acknowledgements
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