| Table of Contents | 第1-5页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| ·Introduction to Oppositeness | 第9-10页 |
| ·What is Oppositeness? | 第10-12页 |
| ·Defining features of opposites | 第12-13页 |
| ·A tour of the dissertation | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter II Oppositeness in logic and linguistics | 第15-28页 |
| ·Alogical view of Oppositeness: contradiction and contrariety | 第15-17页 |
| ·A linguistic view of Oppositeness | 第17-26页 |
| ·An introduction to linguistic study of Oppositeness | 第17-21页 |
| ·Types of opposites | 第21-23页 |
| ·Comments on the division of adjective opposites | 第23-26页 |
| ·The hypothesis | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter III Complementarity and Gradability | 第28-45页 |
| ·Complementarity, as a property of opposites | 第28-33页 |
| ·Psychological foundation of complementarity | 第28-31页 |
| ·Absolute and relative properties | 第28-29页 |
| ·Complementarity, psychologically basic to human beings | 第29-31页 |
| ·Componential analysis in opposites | 第31-33页 |
| ·Gradability, as a property of opposites | 第33-45页 |
| ·The "grey area" and its fuzziness | 第33-39页 |
| ·The grey area | 第33-34页 |
| ·The grey area in language use | 第34-36页 |
| ·The causes of the grey area | 第36-39页 |
| ·Degree modifiers and gradability | 第39-42页 |
| ·Qualitative and Quantitative analyses | 第42-45页 |
| ·Qualitative analysis | 第42-43页 |
| ·Quantitative analysis | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter IV A Dynamic approach to the study | 第45-54页 |
| ·Classical approach | 第45页 |
| ·A Dynamic approach to the study | 第45-54页 |
| ·Domain | 第46-48页 |
| ·"Presence or absence" mode & "More or less" mode | 第48-50页 |
| ·Semantic meanings and pragmatic uses | 第50-54页 |
| ·Context | 第50-51页 |
| ·A use-based model | 第51-52页 |
| ·Conventionalization of the pragmatic uses | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter V Conclusion and Others | 第54-57页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第54-55页 |
| ·Suggestions for further studies | 第55-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-59页 |
