| 摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-10页 |
| ·Introduction | 第9页 |
| ·An overview of the thesis | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter Two Theory framework | 第10-17页 |
| ·Focus and focus domain | 第10-11页 |
| ·Focus and pragmatic presupposition | 第11-12页 |
| ·Types of focus | 第12-15页 |
| ·Lambrecht: Narrow and broad focus | 第12-14页 |
| ·Gundel: psychological, semantic and contrastive focus | 第14-15页 |
| ·Semantic interpretation of focus | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Three Features of English syntactic-semantic focus domain | 第17-29页 |
| ·The minimal information unit corresponding to minimal phrasal category | 第17页 |
| ·Flexible focus placement | 第17-19页 |
| ·Being Context-dependent | 第19-21页 |
| ·Discourse contents | 第20页 |
| ·Background knowledge | 第20-21页 |
| ·Unmarked information focus — end focus | 第21-23页 |
| ·Potential focus domain in complex sentences and illocutionary force operatorl5 | 第23-29页 |
| ·The relation between Potential focus domain in complex sentences and illocutionary force operator | 第23-26页 |
| ·Factors that affect the interpretation of potential focus domains in complex sentence | 第26-29页 |
| ·Lexical semantic factors | 第26-27页 |
| ·Discourse considerations | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Four Devices of focalization in English language | 第29-45页 |
| ·Phonetic approaches | 第29-30页 |
| ·Lexical approach-Adding focus markers | 第30-36页 |
| ·Exclusive focus markers | 第31-33页 |
| ·Demonstrative focus markers | 第33-34页 |
| ·Additive focus markers | 第34-35页 |
| ·Negative focus markers | 第35-36页 |
| ·Grammatical approach | 第36-45页 |
| ·Fronting | 第37页 |
| ·Postponement | 第37-38页 |
| ·Inversion | 第38-40页 |
| ·Left dislocation | 第40-42页 |
| ·Right-dislocation | 第42页 |
| ·Cleft and pseudo-cleft sentences | 第42-45页 |
| Chapter Five Cognitive motivations for focus domain of syntactic construction | 第45-56页 |
| ·Iconicity | 第45-50页 |
| ·Introduction of iconicity | 第45-47页 |
| ·Iconic proximity | 第47页 |
| ·Iconic quantity | 第47-48页 |
| ·Iconic sequencing | 第48-50页 |
| ·Figure-ground segregation | 第50-56页 |
| ·Theory of Figure-ground | 第50-51页 |
| ·The realization of figure-ground in linguistics | 第51-52页 |
| ·Cognitive motivation for focus preposement in syntactic constructions | 第52-54页 |
| ·Cognitive motivation for focus postponement in syntactic constructions | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| ·Summary of foregoing procedures and major findings | 第56页 |
| ·Limitations of present research and suggestions for further study | 第56-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-62页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第62页 |
