| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| ·The Background of the Study | 第9页 |
| ·The Objective and the Significance of the Study | 第9-10页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第11-22页 |
| ·Previous Researches on Tense Category of English Verb | 第11-13页 |
| ·Expansion | 第12页 |
| ·Reduction | 第12-13页 |
| ·Comments on Previous Researches on Tense Category of English Verb | 第13页 |
| ·Previous Study on the Uses of the Present Tense and the Past Tense | 第13-20页 |
| ·Research of Quirk, et al | 第13-17页 |
| ·Exploration of Joos, Palmer and Yi Zhongliang | 第17-18页 |
| ·Studies of Langacker and Taylor | 第18-20页 |
| ·Summary | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Background | 第22-33页 |
| ·The Prototype Theory | 第22-26页 |
| ·An Overview of Studies of Categorization | 第22-23页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction of the Prototype Theory | 第23-26页 |
| ·The Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第26-32页 |
| ·A Brief Review of Metaphor Studies | 第26-28页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to Metaphor | 第28-32页 |
| ·Summary | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Three A Cognitive Study on English Tenses | 第33-69页 |
| ·TIME-IS-SPACE Metaphor | 第33-35页 |
| ·The Polysemous Prototype Category of the Past Tense | 第35-46页 |
| ·Past Tense as a Prototype Category | 第35-41页 |
| ·Cognitive Mechanism of the Polysemization of the Past Tense | 第41-45页 |
| ·Summary | 第45-46页 |
| ·The Polysemous Prototype Category of the Present Tense | 第46-56页 |
| ·Present Tense as a Prototype Category | 第46-53页 |
| ·Cognitive Mechanism of the Polysemization of the Present Tense | 第53-56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56页 |
| ·Cognitive Motivation of the Polysemization in the English Tenses | 第56-62页 |
| ·Cognition | 第57-59页 |
| ·Function | 第59-61页 |
| ·The Shift of the Cognitive Domain | 第61-62页 |
| ·Implication of Cognitive Analysis on English Tenses in FLT | 第62-67页 |
| ·Disadvantages of the Past English Tense Teaching | 第62-63页 |
| ·Application of Cognitive Analysis on English Tenses in FLT | 第63-66页 |
| ·Summary | 第66-67页 |
| ·Summary | 第67-69页 |
| Conclusion | 第69-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-77页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的学术论文 | 第77-79页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第79页 |
