| 中文摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 1 A Brief Historical Review of the Study of the English Tense | 第12-20页 |
| ·Tense as a grammatical category | 第12-15页 |
| ·Tense as a system of verb forms | 第15-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Meanings of English Tenses | 第20-39页 |
| ·Definitions of English tenses in previous studies and their deficiencies | 第20-26页 |
| ·Definitions of English tenses in previous studies | 第20-21页 |
| ·Deficiencies of the definitions of English tenses in previous studies | 第21-26页 |
| ·New definitions of English tenses and their advantages | 第26-39页 |
| ·New definitions of English tenses | 第26-34页 |
| ·Advantages of the new definitions | 第34-39页 |
| Chapter 3 A Cognitive Interpretation of the Meanings of English Tenses | 第39-51页 |
| ·Nature of language | 第39-40页 |
| ·Law of development of language | 第40-41页 |
| ·Law of development of English tenses | 第41-42页 |
| ·History of study of metaphor | 第42-43页 |
| ·Blended space theory and the development of the meanings of English tenses | 第43-51页 |
| ·Blended space theory | 第43-46页 |
| ·Development of the meanings of English tenses | 第46-51页 |
| Chapter 4 Meanings of English Tenses and Their Pragmatic Functions | 第51-68页 |
| ·Meanings of the present tense and their pragmatic functions | 第51-56页 |
| ·Objective time relations of connection and their pragmatic functions | 第51-52页 |
| ·Subjective time relations of connection and their pragmatic functions | 第52-56页 |
| ·Meanings of the past tense and their pragmatic functions | 第56-68页 |
| ·Objective time relations of distance and their pragmatic functions | 第57-60页 |
| ·Subjective time relations of distance and their pragmatic functions | 第60-68页 |
| Conclusions | 第68-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-74页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第74-75页 |
| 原创性声明 | 第75页 |
