| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| 前言 | 第10-14页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第14-22页 |
| ·The Definition of the Demonstrative | 第14-18页 |
| ·The Definition of Chinese Demonstratives | 第14-17页 |
| ·The Definition of English Demonstratives | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Possibility and Necessity of the Study | 第18-20页 |
| ·The Possibility—Theoretical Issues | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Necessity—Application | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Goal of the Thesis | 第20页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第20-22页 |
| 2 Literature Review | 第22-31页 |
| ·Studies on English Demonstrative Pronouns | 第22-25页 |
| ·The Traditional Structuralism | 第22-23页 |
| ·Chomsky's Syntactic Analysis | 第23页 |
| ·Levinson's Syntactic and Pragmatic Analysis | 第23-24页 |
| ·Study in the Perspective of Discourse | 第24页 |
| ·Study on the Implicit Anaphora | 第24-25页 |
| ·Studies on Chinese Demonstratives Pronouns | 第25-27页 |
| ·Study in the Syntactic Perspective | 第25-26页 |
| ·Study in the Discourse Perspective | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Comparison Studies and Problems | 第27-31页 |
| ·Study by Xu Yulong | 第27-29页 |
| ·Study by Lǜ Jun | 第29页 |
| ·Study by Fang Chang | 第29-30页 |
| ·Study by Li Dan | 第30页 |
| ·Study by Quan Wei | 第30-31页 |
| 3 Some Theoretical and Principles Concerned | 第31-35页 |
| ·Contrast Analysis | 第31页 |
| ·Synchronic vs.Diachronic | 第31-32页 |
| ·About Pronouns and Demonstratives | 第32-33页 |
| ·Cohesion & Coherence | 第33-35页 |
| 4 Diachronic Study of English and Chinese Demonstratives | 第35-47页 |
| ·Historical Development of English Demonstratives | 第35-39页 |
| ·Demonstratives in Old English | 第35-38页 |
| ·Demonstratives in Middle English | 第38-39页 |
| ·Demonstratives in Modern English in idioms | 第39页 |
| ·Historical Development of Chinese Demonstratives | 第39-46页 |
| ·The Appearance of Demonstratives in Written Chinese | 第40-41页 |
| ·Chinese Demonstratives in the Ciyuan | 第41-43页 |
| ·"这" | 第41页 |
| ·"那" | 第41-42页 |
| ·"此" | 第42页 |
| ·"彼" | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Original Form of "这" and "那" | 第43-45页 |
| ·The Original Form of "这" | 第43-44页 |
| ·The Original Form of "那" | 第44-45页 |
| ·More Examples of Demonstratives in Classical Chinese | 第45-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| 5 Synchronic Study of English and Chinese Demonstratives | 第47-77页 |
| ·Phonological Approach to Chinese Demonstratives | 第47-48页 |
| ·Study on the Sounds of "彼" and "此" | 第47-48页 |
| ·Study on the Sounds of "这" and "那" | 第48页 |
| ·Morphological Approach to the Comparison between English and Chinese Demonstratives | 第48-51页 |
| ·Morphological study of "彼" and "此" | 第48-49页 |
| ·Morphological study of "这" and "那" | 第49页 |
| ·Morphological study of"this" and "that" | 第49页 |
| ·Full words or Particles | 第49-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| ·Syntactic Approach to the Comparison between English and Chinese Demonstratives | 第51-62页 |
| ·Demonstrative Pronouns and Demonstrative Determiners | 第51-59页 |
| ·Demonstrative Adverbs | 第59-60页 |
| ·Demonstrative Identifiers | 第60-61页 |
| ·Demonstrative Determiner | 第61页 |
| ·Definite and Indefinite | 第61-62页 |
| ·Summary | 第62页 |
| ·Semantic Approach to the Comparison between English and Chinese Demonstratives | 第62-67页 |
| ·Pragmatic Approach to the Comparison between English and Chinese Demonstratives | 第67-75页 |
| ·The Exophoric Use | 第68-70页 |
| ·The Comparison of Anaphora and Cataphora between English and Chinese Demonstratives | 第70-75页 |
| ·Application and Practice of Demonstratives | 第75-77页 |
| 6 Conclusion | 第77-79页 |
| Appendix | 第79-80页 |
| References | 第80-82页 |
