| ACKOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH | 第5-8页 |
| ABSTRACT IN CHINESE | 第8-11页 |
| CONTENTS | 第11-15页 |
| LIST OF TABLE | 第15页 |
| LIST OF PLATES | 第15-16页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第16页 |
| LIST OF FIGURES | 第16-17页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第17-29页 |
| ·Preliminary remarks | 第17-20页 |
| ·Related theories in categorization and construal | 第20-24页 |
| ·Classical approach to categorization | 第20-22页 |
| ·Prototype model of categorization | 第22-23页 |
| ·Experience construal model of SFL | 第23-24页 |
| ·The research rationale and methodology | 第24-26页 |
| ·The organization of the dissertation | 第26-29页 |
| CHAPTER 2 EXPERIENCE AND LANGUAGE: LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY UNDERLYING THE CETM MODEL | 第29-48页 |
| ·Introduction | 第29页 |
| ·Background of the experience construal model | 第29-31页 |
| ·World of experience and language of experience | 第31-32页 |
| ·Experiential language: meaning | 第32-35页 |
| ·Experiential language: experience | 第35-40页 |
| ·Experiential language: language and grammar | 第40-41页 |
| ·Stratification of language, mctalanguagc and realization | 第41-44页 |
| ·Criticism from other scholars | 第44-45页 |
| ·The role of human language in experience construal | 第45-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-48页 |
| CHAPTER 3 MAIN FRAMEWORK OF THE CETM MODEL: ELEMENT, FIGURE AND SEQUENCE | 第48-78页 |
| ·Introduction | 第48-49页 |
| ·Element, figure and sequence on the experiential level | 第49-55页 |
| ·Element on the level of experiential semantics | 第49-50页 |
| ·Figure on experiential semantics level and figure classification | 第50-55页 |
| ·Sequences on the level of experiential semantics | 第55页 |
| ·Grammatical construal of elements | 第55-59页 |
| ·Elements construed within the ideational component | 第56页 |
| ·Elements construed within interpersonal metafunction | 第56-57页 |
| ·Elements construed within textual metafunction | 第57-59页 |
| ·Grammatical construal of figure | 第59-68页 |
| ·Construal of figure in transitivity grammar | 第59-61页 |
| ·Grammatical reactances in the grammatical realization of figure | 第61-64页 |
| ·First and second-order reality as construed in figures | 第64-65页 |
| ·Distinction between figure doing and figure being | 第65-68页 |
| ·Grammatical realization of sequential experiential phenomena | 第68-73页 |
| ·Sequence: expansion | 第69-71页 |
| ·Sequence: projection | 第71-73页 |
| ·Our Reflections | 第73-76页 |
| ·The prototype principium behind the classification of figures and clauses | 第73-74页 |
| ·A discussion on figure and sequence: meanings and Chinese translations. | 第74-76页 |
| ·Summary | 第76-78页 |
| CHAPTER 4 THE IDEATION BASE: POWERHOUSE OF EXPERIENCE CONSTRUAL | 第78-112页 |
| ·Introduction | 第78页 |
| ·The Ideation base: development of the ideational metafunction | 第78-80页 |
| ·The organization of the ideation base | 第80-84页 |
| ·Scale of delicacy and the cline of instantiation: two major dimensions of the ideation base | 第80-82页 |
| ·Delicacy and instantiation: reinterpretation in terms of token/value | 第82-83页 |
| ·Paradigmatic and syntagmatic construal of categories in the ideation base | 第83-84页 |
| ·The mechanism of experience construing of the ideation base | 第84-95页 |
| ·Taxonomic elaboration | 第85-86页 |
| ·Meronymic extension | 第86-92页 |
| ·Eco-functional selection | 第92-94页 |
| ·Shift of perspectives in construing the participant | 第94-95页 |
| ·The nature of the ideation base: our interpretation | 第95-100页 |
| ·The ideation base as part of the metalanguage of the CETM model | 第96-97页 |
| ·The ideation base as a multidimensional semantic space | 第97-98页 |
| ·The ideation base as the metaphorical simulation of human brain | 第98-100页 |
| ·Problems with the ideation base and our solutions | 第100-110页 |
| ·Complementarity of psychological processing model to the ideation base | 第101-102页 |
| ·Experience construal of the ideation base in terms of the psycholinguistic model | 第102-104页 |
| ·Experience filtering model of the ideation base | 第104-106页 |
| ·Iconicity of complexity | 第106-108页 |
| ·"Construe/construal" in SFL: meaning, nature and their Chinese versions | 第108-110页 |
| ·Summary | 第110-112页 |
| CHAPTER 5 CATEGORY STRUCTURE: TRI-PERSPECTIVE INSIGHT | 第112-129页 |
| ·Introduction | 第112页 |
| ·Category structure of the Prototype Theory: review and comment | 第112-115页 |
| ·Category structure theory of SFL: review, comment and contrast with viewpoints of Cognitive Linguistics | 第115-120页 |
| ·Scale of delicacy in SFL | 第115-116页 |
| ·The basic level | 第116-117页 |
| ·Folk taxonomy vs. scientific taxonomy | 第117-119页 |
| ·Problems with the scale of delicacy | 第119-120页 |
| ·Our new model of category structure | 第120-125页 |
| ·The scale of delicacy and selection system of categories | 第120-122页 |
| ·Role of social context in the new model of category structure | 第122-125页 |
| ·Species relativity of the basic level: philosophical reflections | 第125-127页 |
| ·Summary | 第127-129页 |
| CHAPTER 6 CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCNCE CONSTRUAL DEVELOPMENT: AN APPLICATION OF THE IDEATION BASE | 第129-147页 |
| ·Introduction | 第129-130页 |
| ·Meaning acquisition and the role of environment in the child's experience construal | 第130-133页 |
| ·The relation between grammar acquisition and meaning acquisition | 第130-132页 |
| ·The role of environment in the child's experience construal | 第132-133页 |
| ·Grammatical realizations at distinct stages of experience construal | 第133-142页 |
| ·Stage One | 第134-135页 |
| ·Stage Two | 第135-138页 |
| ·Stage three | 第138-142页 |
| ·A summary on child experience construal capacity | 第142-144页 |
| ·Evidence from related studies of children's mother tongue acquisition | 第144-145页 |
| ·Deficiencies with this study and our conclusion | 第145-147页 |
| CHAPTER 7 CONCLUDING REMARKS | 第147-157页 |
| ·Summary of the study and our contributions | 第147-150页 |
| ·Cognition-related aspects in the CETM model | 第150-153页 |
| ·Limitations and prospects for future research | 第153-157页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第157-168页 |
