| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Background of the Current Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Objectives of the Current Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Layout of This Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第16-30页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Cause-effect Concept | 第16-20页 |
| ·The Philosophical Approach | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Logical Approach | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Linguistic Approach | 第19-20页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Cause-effect Sentence in English | 第20-28页 |
| ·The Pedagogic Grammar Approach | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Functional Approach | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Cognitive Approach | 第23-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundations | 第30-44页 |
| ·Conceptualization | 第30-32页 |
| ·Categorization | 第32-40页 |
| ·Classical Theory of Categorization | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Prototype Theory | 第34-40页 |
| ·Definifion of Prototype | 第35-36页 |
| ·Characteristics of the Prototype Theory | 第36-38页 |
| ·Applications of the Prototype Theory | 第38-40页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第40-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter 3 The Generation and Expansion of the Cause-effect Concept | 第44-66页 |
| ·Definition of the Cause-effect Concept | 第44-47页 |
| ·The Experiential Basis of the Cause-effect Concept | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Componential Elements of the Cause-effect Concept | 第49-50页 |
| ·The Generation of the Cause-effect Concept | 第50-52页 |
| ·The Expansion of the Cause-effect Concept | 第52-60页 |
| ·Prototypes of the Cause-effect Concept and Their Semantic Features | 第53-57页 |
| ·Non-prototypes of the Cause-effect Concept and Their Semantic Features | 第57-60页 |
| ·The Motivation and Mechanisms of the Expansion | 第60-64页 |
| ·The Motivation of the Expansion | 第60-61页 |
| ·The Mechanism of the Expansion | 第61-64页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第61-62页 |
| ·Perspective | 第62-64页 |
| ·Summary | 第64-66页 |
| Chapter 4 The Generation and Expansion the Cause-effect Sentence in English | 第66-82页 |
| ·The Generation of the Cause-effect Sentence in English | 第66-70页 |
| ·The Expansion of the Cause-effect Sentence in English | 第70-80页 |
| ·Prototype of the Cause-effect Sentence in English and Their Syntactic Features | 第71-75页 |
| ·Prototype of the Cause-effect Sentence in English | 第71-75页 |
| ·The Syntactic Features of the Prototypes of the Cause-effect Sentence in English | 第75页 |
| ·Non-prototypes of the Cause-effect Sentences in English and Their Syntactic Features | 第75-80页 |
| ·Non-prototypes of the Cause-effect Sentences in English | 第76-80页 |
| ·The Syntactic Features of Non-prototypes of the Cause-effect Sentence in English | 第80页 |
| ·Summary | 第80-82页 |
| Conelusion | 第82-86页 |
| Bibliography | 第86-92页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第92-94页 |
