声明
摘要
ABSTRACT
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background of the Research
1.2 Research Questions
1.3 Purpose and Significance of this Study
1.4 The Organization of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 A Review of Cohesion Theory
2.2 Four Grammatical Cohesive Devices
2.2.1 Reference
2.2.2 Substitution
2.2.3 Ellipsis
2.2.4 Conjunction
2.3 Cohesion Studies at Home and abroad
2.4 Previous Studies on SUA and RWG
2.4.1 Previous Studies on SUA
2.4.2 Previous Studies on RWG
Chapter 3 Methodology
3.1 Corpus-based Approach
3.2 Quantitative and Qualitative Research
3.3 Corpora Used in the Study
3.3.1 SUA Corpus
3.3.2 RWG Corpus
3.4 Instruments
3.4.1 SPSS
3.4.2 Antconc
3.4.3 CLAWS
Chapter 4 Analysis and Discussion
4.1 General Comparison of Grammatical Cohesion
4.2 Comparison in Reference
4.2.1 Comparison in Personal Reference
4.2.2 Comparison in Demonstrative Reference
4.2.3 Comparison in Comparative Reference
4.2 Comparison in Conjunction
4.2.1 Additive Conjunction
4.2.2 Adversative Conjunction
4.2.3 Causal Conjunction
4.2.4 Temporal Conjunction
4.3 Comparison in Substitution
4.4 Comparison in Ellipsis
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1 Main Findings
5.2 Limitations
5.3 Suggestions for Further Study
5.4 Implications of the Study
References
Acknowledgements
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