文摘
英文文摘
声明
Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Object of This Study
1.2 Motivation of This Study
1.3 Purposes of This Study
1.4 Theoretical Approach
1.5 Data Collection and Methodology
1.6 Organization of This Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Studies on English Demonstratives
2.1.1 Textual Approach to Demonstratives
2.1.2 Pragmatic Approach to Demonstratives
2.1.3 Cognitive Approaches to Demonstratives
2.2 Studies on Chinese Demonstratives
2.2.1 Studies at the Syntactic Level
2.2.2 Studies at the Semantic and Pragmatic Level
2.2.3 Studies at the Discourse Level
2.3 Studies on the Contrast of English and Chinese Demonstratives
2.4 Comment
Chapter Three The Theoretical Guide
3.1 Subjectivity in Language
3.1.1 Contributions and Limitations of AT
3.1.2 The Role of Subjectivity in Discourse
3.1.3 Subjectivity in CG
3.2 A Reference Point Model of Demonstratives
3.3 Hypotheses
3.4 Summary
Chapter Four Expressive Function of Demonstratives in Chinese
4.1 Two Cases of POV
4.2 Demonstratives in Cataphora
4.2.1 Demonstratives in the Beginning of Discourse
4.2.2 Proximal Demonstratives
4.2.3 Distal Demonstratives
4.2.4 Subjectivity of Demonstratives
4.2.5 POV Effects on Demonstratives
4.3 Demonstratives in Coreference
4.3.1 A Demonstrative with the First Person Pronoun
4.3.2 A Demonstrative with the Second Person Pronoun
4.3.3 The Proximal Demonstrative with the First/Second Person Pronoun
4.3.4 A Demonstrative with the Third Person Pronoun
4.3.5 POV Effects on the Expression of Demonstrative with a Personal Pronoun
4.4 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Conclusions
5.2Limitations and Implications
Bibliography