| Introduction | 第1-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Language as a Sign System | 第11-21页 |
| ·Introductory Remarks on sign | 第11-16页 |
| ·Ambiguity of Definition | 第11-14页 |
| ·Linguistic signs | 第14页 |
| ·Language as a sign system | 第14-16页 |
| ·The Brief History of Language Study as Signs | 第16-21页 |
| ·In Ancient Times | 第16-17页 |
| ·In ancient Greek and Rome | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Middle Age | 第18-19页 |
| 1 2.4 In Modern Times | 第19-20页 |
| ·In china | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter 2 Nature or Convention: Cratylus | 第21-27页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Cratylus | 第21-22页 |
| ·Part One: Nature and Convention | 第22-24页 |
| ·Part Two: Imitation and Essence | 第24-26页 |
| Conclusive Remarks | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Arguments on arbitrariness in academic circle | 第27-45页 |
| ·Saussure's definition on arbitrariness | 第27-30页 |
| ·An Brief Introduction to Other Supportive Views on Arbitrariness | 第30页 |
| ·Comments on Saussure's arbitrariness | 第30-39页 |
| ·Why Arbitrariness? | 第39-43页 |
| ·The Understanding of 'no natural connection' | 第40页 |
| ·The Understanding of 'arbitrariness means unmotivated' | 第40-41页 |
| ·Conventional vs. Arbitrary | 第41-42页 |
| ·Onomatopoeia in different languages | 第42-43页 |
| Conclusive Remarks: | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter 4 Arguments on Iconicity in Academlc Circle | 第45-65页 |
| ·a general outline for the study of iconicity | 第45-47页 |
| ·Peirce's Definition On Iconicity | 第47-53页 |
| ·Linguistic interpretation to Peirce's sign | 第47-50页 |
| ·Peircean Iconicity | 第50-53页 |
| ·Some Basis of Iconic origin of Lexical Sign | 第53-60页 |
| ·A General introduction to words affected by iconicity | 第53-55页 |
| ·Some Bases of iconic origin of words | 第55-60页 |
| ·Iconicity and Arbitrariness Juxtaposed | 第60-64页 |
| ·conventionalization | 第60-63页 |
| ·Iconicity and Arbitrariness Coexisting | 第63-64页 |
| Conclosive remarks: | 第64-65页 |
| Conclusion | 第65-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-71页 |
