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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Discourse Markers
1.2 Research Focuses and Significance
1.3 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Perspectives of Studying Discourse Markers
2.1 Previous Studies of DMs
2.1.1 The Coherence-based Perspective
2.1.2 The Grammatical-pragmatic Perspective
2.1.3 The Cognitive-pragmatic Perspective
2.1.4 The Metapragmatic Perspective
2.2 Study of DMs From Functional Grammar
2.2.1 Halliday’S Functional Grammar
2.2.2 Metafunctions
Chapter 3 Textual Functions of Discourse Markers
3.1 Information Structure and DMs’Metafunctions
3.2 DMs’Textual Functions at the Local Level
3.2.1 Signaling the Relationship of Elaboration
3.2.2 Signaling the Relationship of Extension
3.3 DMs’Textual Functions at the Global Level
3.3.1 Helping Construct Information Frame
3.3.2 Marking Source of Information
3.3.3 Signaling Topic Shifting
3.4 Proposed Classification of Textual DMs
Chapter 4 Interpersonal Functions of Discourse Markers
4.1 Mood Structure and DMs’Metafunctions
4.2 DMs’Interpersonal Functions
4.2.1 Marking the Writer’s Viewpoint
4.2.2 Marking the Writer’s Comment
4.2.3 Marking the Writer’s Judgment
4.3 Proposed Classification of Interpersonal DMs
Chapter 5 DMs’Guidance to College EFL Reading Comprehension
5.1 EFL Reading Comprehension and its Tests for College Students
5.1.1 Nature and Objectives of EFL Reading Comprehension
5.1.2 EFL Reading Comprehension Tests for College Students
5.2 DMs’Roles in College EFL Reading Comprehension
5.2.1 Role as the Clue to Topic of Text
5.2.2 Role as the Clue to Detail
5.2.3 Role as the Clue to Meaning-guess
5.2.4 Role as the Clue to Efiective Inference
5.2.5 Role as the Clue to Understanding the Writer
5.3 Teaching DMs in College EFL Reading Class
5.3.1 Pre-reading Stage
5.3.2 While-reading Stage
5.3.3 Post-reading Stage
Chapter 6 Conclusion
6.1 Main Findings
6.2 LimitatiOIlS of the Study
6.3 Suggestions for Further Study
Works Cited
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