声明
List of Abbreviations
List of Tables and Figures
Table of Contents
Abstract
摘要
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Research Purpose and Significance
1.3 The Organization of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literary Review
2.1 Previous Studies on Coherence Abroad
2.1.1 Influential Theories of Coherence Abroad
2.1.2 Other Important Scholars
2.2 Previous Studies on Coherence at Home
2.2.1 Domestic Theoretical Works on Coherence
2.2.2 Domestic Relevant Papers on Coherence
2.3 Corpus-based Studies on Jane Austen’s Works
2.3.1 Corpus-based Studies on Jane Austen’s Works Abroad
2.3.2 Domestic Studies on Jane Austen’s Works
2.4 A Summary
Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework
3.1 Coherence Theories in Systemic-functional Linguistics
3.1.1 The Importance of Cohesive Devices in Textual Coherence
3.1.2 Cohesive Framework Designed by Zhang Delu
3.2 Self-designed Research Framework in this Thesis
3.2.1 Notions of Explicit and Implicit Coherence
3.2.2 Clarifications of Other Important Notions
3.3 A Summary
Chapter 4 Methodology
4.1 The Hypothesis
4.2 Research Questions
4.3 Data Collection and Corpus Construction
4.3.1 Data Sources
4.3.2 Data Collection Principles
4.3.3 Corpora Construction
4.4 Data Analyses Procedures
4.5 Research Tools
4.5.1 Readability Analyzer 1.0
4.5.2 AntConc 3.2.4
4.6 A Summary
Chapter 5 The Corpus-based Analyses and Discussions
5.1 The Corpus-based Analyses and Discussions of Explicit Coherence
5.1.1 The Lexical Density Analyses and Discussions of Explicit Coherence
5.1.2 The Keywords Analyses and Discussions of Explicit Coherence
5.1.3 The N-grams Analyses and Discussions of Explicit Coherence
5.2 The Corpus-based Analyses and Discussions of Implicit Coherence
5.2.1 The Place Field Keywords Analyses and Discussions in Corpus NA
5.2.2 The Textuality Field Keywords Analyses and Discussions in Corpus NA
5.3 The Verification of the Hypothesis
5.4 A Summary
Chapter 6 Conclusion
6.1 Major Findings
6.2 Limitations of the Present Study
6.3 Suggestions for Future Studies
Bibliography
Appendix Ⅰ
Appendix Ⅱ
Acknowledgements
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