| ABSTRACT | 第4页 |
| CHAPTER ONE APPROACHES TO ANTONYMY | 第6-15页 |
| Ⅰ INTRODUCTION | 第6-9页 |
| 1 Cognitive primitiveness | 第6-7页 |
| 2 Morphological relatedness | 第7页 |
| 3 Semantic closeness | 第7-8页 |
| 4 Clang phenomena | 第8-9页 |
| 5 Binarity | 第9页 |
| 6 Inherentness | 第9页 |
| 7 Patency | 第9页 |
| Ⅱ LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO DEFINING ANTONYMY | 第9-14页 |
| 1 Types of opposites | 第10-12页 |
| 2 Gradable antonyms | 第12-14页 |
| Ⅲ OVERVIEW OF THE PAPER | 第14-15页 |
| CHAPTER TWO DEFINING FEATURES AND SUBTYPES OF GRADABLE ANTONYMS | 第15-22页 |
| Ⅰ DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES OF GRADABLE ANTONYMS | 第15-16页 |
| Ⅱ SUBTYPES OF GRADABLE ANTONYMS | 第16-18页 |
| Ⅲ BOUNDED AND UNBOUNDED SCALE ANTONYMS | 第18-22页 |
| 1 Scales in gradable antonyms | 第19页 |
| 2 Bounded and Unbounded Scale Antonyms | 第19-20页 |
| 3 Using completely to identify Bounded Scale Antonyms from Unbounded Scale Antonyms | 第20-22页 |
| CHAPTER THREE COMMITTEDNESS AND IMPARTIALITY OF GRADABLE ANTONYMS | 第22-30页 |
| Ⅰ THE LINGUISTIC DEFINITION OF COMMITTEDNESS AND IMPARTIALITY | 第22-23页 |
| Ⅱ THE DISTRIBUTION OF IMPARTIALITY IN THREE SUB-TYPES OF GRADABLE ANTONYMS IN COMPARATIVES | 第23-26页 |
| Ⅲ COGNITIVE AND PRAGMATIC EXPLICATION TO COMMITTEDNESS AND IMPARTIALITY OF GRADABLE ANTONYMS | 第26-30页 |
| 1 Cognitive and pragmatic explanation to the origin of gradable antonyms | 第26-27页 |
| 2 Cognitive and pragmatic explanation to the distribution of impartiality in gradable antonyms | 第27-30页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR COMPARISONS WITH GRADABLE ANTONYMS | 第30-43页 |
| Ⅰ EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT COMPARISON | 第30-33页 |
| Ⅱ IMPLIED COMPARISON CALIBRATION AND ITS FEATURES | 第33-38页 |
| 1 Relativity | 第33-35页 |
| 2 Uncertainty | 第35页 |
| 3 Subjectivity | 第35-36页 |
| 4 Cultural variation | 第36-38页 |
| Ⅲ GRADABLE ANTONYMS AND EXPLICIT COMPARISON DOMAINS | 第38-40页 |
| Ⅳ A CASE STUDY OF 'TALL-GRADATION AND COMPARISON | 第40-43页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE MARKEDNESS OF GRADABLE ANTONYMS | 第43-54页 |
| Ⅰ MARKEDNESS IN ALL LINGUISTIC LEVELS | 第43-45页 |
| Ⅱ THE SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF MARKEDNESS | 第45-46页 |
| Ⅲ EXPLANATION OF THE MARKED PATTERNS | 第46-52页 |
| 1 Logical positivity and negativity | 第47-48页 |
| 2 Cognitive positivity and negativity | 第48-50页 |
| 3 Evaluative positivity and Negativity | 第50-51页 |
| 4 Pragmatic polarity | 第51-52页 |
| Ⅳ THE INTER-RELATION BETWEEN MARKEDNESS AND COMMITTEDNESS | 第52-54页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY | 第54-57页 |
| Ⅰ CONCLUSION | 第54-55页 |
| Ⅱ SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY | 第55-57页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第57-59页 |
