| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-20页 |
| ·Research Background | 第13-15页 |
| ·Research Motivation | 第15-18页 |
| ·The Significance of This Research | 第18页 |
| ·The Organization and Methodology of This Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two A Preliminary Study on Foregrounding | 第20-35页 |
| ·The Concept of Foregrounding | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Function of Foregrounding | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Discrimination of Some Terms Related to Foregrounding | 第22-24页 |
| ·Norm and Deviation | 第22-23页 |
| ·Prominence, Deviation and Foregrounding | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Adoption of Deviation Analysis to the Study of Foregrounding | 第24-35页 |
| ·Lexical Deviation | 第25-29页 |
| ·Grammatical Deviation | 第29-31页 |
| ·Phonological Deviation | 第31-32页 |
| ·Semantic Deviation | 第32-33页 |
| ·Deviation of Register | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Three Lexical Deviation—Nonce-meaning | 第35-42页 |
| ·Nonce-meaning | 第35-40页 |
| ·The Conversion of Word Class | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Four Grammatical Deviation—Enjambment, Insertion and Inversion | 第42-57页 |
| ·Enjambment | 第42-49页 |
| ·Those that may be rewritten as one single sentence and cannot be further divided without destroying its meaning. | 第42-44页 |
| ·Another kind of enjambment refers to those that are separated by a colon or a comma. | 第44-49页 |
| ·Insertion and Inversion | 第49-53页 |
| ·Insertion | 第49-52页 |
| ·Inversion | 第52-53页 |
| ·Other Grammatical Deviations | 第53-57页 |
| ·The omission of articles | 第53-55页 |
| ·The use of “no” to express negative feeling. | 第55页 |
| ·Others | 第55-57页 |
| Chapter Five Semantic Deviation and Figures of Speech | 第57-65页 |
| ·Simile | 第57-58页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第58-60页 |
| ·Metonymy | 第60-61页 |
| ·Oxymoron | 第61-62页 |
| ·Pun | 第62-65页 |
| Chapter Six Phonological Deviation—the Rhyming Scheme of Clerihew | 第65-67页 |
| Chapter Seven Deviation of Register—Informal words and Slang | 第67-71页 |
| ·Informal Words | 第67-69页 |
| ·The Slang | 第69-70页 |
| ·Words of Other Fields | 第70-71页 |
| Chapter Eight Conclusion | 第71-75页 |
| ·The Conclusion of the Thesis | 第71-73页 |
| ·Limitations of the Thesis | 第73页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Study | 第73-75页 |
| Bibliography | 第75-78页 |
