| Declaration | 第1-8页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第8-10页 |
| Abstract | 第10-12页 |
| List of figures and tables | 第12-13页 |
| List of abbreviations | 第13-14页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第14-23页 |
| ·Introduction | 第14-15页 |
| ·What is polysemy? | 第15-16页 |
| ·The research question | 第16-17页 |
| ·The research methodology | 第17-18页 |
| ·The polysemy of da | 第18-19页 |
| ·Sense demarcation of polysemous words in lexicography | 第19-20页 |
| ·A tour of the thesis | 第20-21页 |
| ·Claims | 第21-23页 |
| 2 Word Meaning and Polysemy | 第23-48页 |
| ·Introduction | 第23页 |
| ·Meaning in philosophy and linguistics | 第23-31页 |
| ·Naturalist hypothesis | 第23-25页 |
| ·Referential theory | 第25-27页 |
| ·Meaning as context and use | 第27-30页 |
| ·Systemic-functional approach to meaning | 第30-31页 |
| ·Word and some design features of its meaning(s) | 第31-38页 |
| ·Word and lexeme | 第31-33页 |
| ·Some design features of word meaning | 第33-38页 |
| ·Word meaning disambiguation | 第38-46页 |
| ·Monosemy vs polysemy | 第38-41页 |
| ·Polysemy vs homonymy | 第41-43页 |
| ·Regular vs Irregular polysemy | 第43-45页 |
| ·Idiosyncratic polysemy | 第45-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-48页 |
| 3 Sense Identification and Distinction in Lexicography | 第48-65页 |
| ·Introduction | 第48页 |
| ·Lexicographical problems with polysemous words | 第48-54页 |
| ·Arbitrariness from inadequate semantic analysis | 第48-51页 |
| ·Feature priority misplaced | 第51-53页 |
| ·Sense proliferation | 第53页 |
| ·Problem of definition by synonym | 第53-54页 |
| ·Summary | 第54页 |
| ·Sense identification and distinction in practical lexicography | 第54-57页 |
| ·Practical procedure | 第54-55页 |
| ·Practical criteria | 第55-56页 |
| ·How free is the lexicographer? | 第56-57页 |
| ·Theoretical exploration and new developments | 第57-63页 |
| ·One sense or more than one? | 第57-60页 |
| ·Some new developments | 第60-63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-65页 |
| 4 Semantic Structure of Polysemous Words | 第65-88页 |
| ·Introduction | 第65-66页 |
| ·Classical approach | 第66-68页 |
| ·Decompositional semantic approach | 第66-67页 |
| ·Natural semantic metalanguage approach | 第67页 |
| ·Chinese scholars' research | 第67-68页 |
| ·Cognitive semantic approach | 第68-81页 |
| ·Cognitive semantics as the general theoretical framework | 第68-69页 |
| ·Prototype approach | 第69-73页 |
| ·Idealized cognitive model | 第73-77页 |
| ·Dynamic usage-based model | 第77-79页 |
| ·Summary | 第79-81页 |
| ·Other approaches | 第81-86页 |
| ·Psycholinguistic approach | 第81-85页 |
| ·Relational approach | 第85-86页 |
| ·Summary | 第86-88页 |
| 5 Semantic Change and Sense Generation | 第88-109页 |
| ·Introduction | 第88页 |
| ·Semantic change | 第88-95页 |
| ·Environment of semantic change | 第88-90页 |
| ·Regularities in semantic change | 第90-94页 |
| ·Pragmatic-semantic interface | 第94-95页 |
| ·Sense generation and generating polysemy | 第95-107页 |
| ·Sense generation: a "quasi-classical" approach | 第95-100页 |
| ·Generating polysemy: metaphor and metonomy | 第100-107页 |
| ·Summary | 第107-109页 |
| 6 A Lexicography-oriented Model for Sense Demarcation | 第109-134页 |
| ·Introduction | 第109-110页 |
| ·Methodology for determining the distinct senses | 第110-112页 |
| ·Methodology for determining the primary sense | 第112-124页 |
| ·Principles of categorization and basic level concept | 第112-115页 |
| ·Idealized Cognitive Model (ICM) revisited | 第115-116页 |
| ·A frame semantic case study of crawl | 第116-119页 |
| ·Conventionalization of contextual meaning | 第119-121页 |
| ·The case study of over | 第121-123页 |
| ·Chinese Scholars' relevant research | 第123-124页 |
| ·Criteria for sense identification and distinction of polysemous words | 第124-126页 |
| ·Granularity: dictionary user's cognitive domain vs sense's semantic frame | 第126-129页 |
| ·Pragmatic strengthening and on-line meaning construction | 第129-130页 |
| ·Sense relations in semantic network of polysemous words | 第130-131页 |
| ·Characteristics of semantic network | 第131-132页 |
| ·Summary | 第132-134页 |
| 7 Sense Demarcation of Polysemous Verbs: the Case of Da | 第134-153页 |
| ·Introduction | 第134页 |
| ·The uniqueness of Chinese characters and words | 第134-135页 |
| ·Previous studies | 第135-145页 |
| ·Diachronic studies | 第135-136页 |
| ·Synchronic studies | 第136-140页 |
| ·Investigations into classic Chinese | 第140-145页 |
| ·Investigations into Mandarin Chinese | 第145页 |
| ·A preliminary sense demarcation of contemporary da under the new model | 第145-152页 |
| ·Primary sense and/or protosense | 第145-147页 |
| ·A preliminary sense demarcation of da | 第147-151页 |
| ·Semantic network of contemporary da | 第151-152页 |
| ·Summary | 第152-153页 |
| 8 Semantic Networks of Da in Lao She's and Cao Xueqin's Mind | 第153-176页 |
| ·Introduction | 第153-154页 |
| ·Semantic representation of da in Lao She's mind | 第154-165页 |
| ·Collecting da citations from FourGs | 第154-155页 |
| ·Separating da as a single character word from da in compounds | 第155-160页 |
| ·Analyzing da as a single character word | 第160-164页 |
| ·Citations for da not as a verb | 第164页 |
| ·The semantic representation of verb da in Lao She's mind | 第164-165页 |
| ·Semantic representation of da in Cao Xueqin's mind | 第165-169页 |
| ·Da compounds | 第165-167页 |
| ·Da as single character word | 第167-169页 |
| ·The semantic representation of verb da in Cao Xueqin's mind | 第169页 |
| ·A comparison between the two cases | 第169-175页 |
| ·Comparing the da compounds | 第170-171页 |
| ·Comparing the distinct senses of da | 第171-173页 |
| ·Other findings and some reflections | 第173-175页 |
| ·Summary | 第175-176页 |
| 9 Conclusions | 第176-183页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第176-182页 |
| ·Limitations | 第182页 |
| ·Future research | 第182-183页 |
| Bibliography | 第183-195页 |
