| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| List of Abbreviation | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第13-14页 |
| 1.2 Research Objective and Significance | 第14页 |
| 1.3 Organization of the Thesis | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-27页 |
| 2.1 Co-selection Theory | 第17-19页 |
| 2.1.1 Co-selection of Word and Word | 第17-18页 |
| 2.1.2 Co-selection of Word and Grammar | 第18页 |
| 2.1.3 Co-selection of Pattern and Meaning | 第18-19页 |
| 2.2 Extended Units of Meaning | 第19-22页 |
| 2.2.1 Collocation and Colligation | 第19-20页 |
| 2.2.2 Semantic Preference and Semantic Prosody | 第20-22页 |
| 2.3 Chinese Words and Their Translation Equivalents | 第22-24页 |
| 2.3.1 Chinese Concept and English Concept | 第22-23页 |
| 2.3.2 Synonyms | 第23-24页 |
| 2.4 Previous Studies | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第27-31页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第27页 |
| 3.2 Corpora | 第27-28页 |
| 3.3 Research Method and Instruments | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter Four Contrastive Analysis between Chinese and English Lexical Units | 第31-53页 |
| 4.1 Co-selection of ACKNOWLEDGE Group | 第31-42页 |
| 4.1.1 Extended Units of Meaning of ACKNOWLEDGE | 第31-34页 |
| 4.1.2 Extended Units of Meaning of ADMIT | 第34-37页 |
| 4.1.3 Extended Units of Meaning of CONFESS | 第37页 |
| 4.1.4 Extended Units of Meaning of RECOGNIZE | 第37-38页 |
| 4.1.5 Extended Units of Meaning of CONCEDE | 第38-39页 |
| 4.1.6 Intralingual Contrast of English Synonyms | 第39-42页 |
| 4.2 Co-selection of cheng2ren4 (承认) Group | 第42-48页 |
| 4.2.1 Extended Units of Meaning of cheng2ren4 (承认) | 第42-45页 |
| 4.2.2 Extended Units of Meaning of ren4ke3 (认可) | 第45-46页 |
| 4.2.3 Extended Units of Meaning of tan3bai2 (坦白), zhao1ren4 (招认) and gong4ren4 (供认) | 第46-47页 |
| 4.2.4 Intralingual Contrast of Chinese Synonyms | 第47-48页 |
| 4.3 Contrast between Chinese and English Synonyms | 第48-51页 |
| 4.3.1 The Degree of Semantic Prosody Correspondence | 第48-49页 |
| 4.3.2 The Degree of Pragmatic Meaning Correspondence | 第49-50页 |
| 4.3.3 Influence of Chinese Concept on English synonyms | 第50-51页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第53-57页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第53页 |
| 5.2 Research Implications | 第53-54页 |
| 5.3 Research Limitation and Suggestion for Further Study | 第54-57页 |
| References | 第57-61页 |
| 攻读学位期间发表的学术论文目录 | 第61-62页 |
