| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·Charles Dickens and His Oliver Twist | 第11-12页 |
| ·Aims and Significance of the Present Study | 第12-14页 |
| ·Methodology of Analysis | 第14-15页 |
| ·Overall Structure of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-31页 |
| ·Researches on Foregrounding Theory | 第17-26页 |
| ·Researches on Foregrounding Theory Abroad | 第17-24页 |
| ·Researches on Foregrounding Theory at Home | 第24-26页 |
| ·Researches on Dickens’Oliver Twist | 第26-29页 |
| ·Researches on Oliver Twist Abroad | 第26-28页 |
| ·Researches on Oliver Twist at Home | 第28-29页 |
| ·Summary | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework: Foregrounding | 第31-39页 |
| ·Concept of Foregrounding | 第32-33页 |
| ·Types of Foregrounding | 第33-37页 |
| ·Deviation | 第33-36页 |
| ·Deviation at the Linguistic Level | 第34-35页 |
| ·Deviation at the Non-Linguistic Level | 第35-36页 |
| ·Over-Regularity | 第36-37页 |
| ·Function of Foregrounding | 第37-38页 |
| ·Summary | 第38-39页 |
| Chapter Four Deviation in Oliver Twist | 第39-67页 |
| ·Deviation in Oliver Twist at the Linguistic Level | 第39-61页 |
| ·Graphological Deviation | 第39-47页 |
| ·Grammatical Deviation | 第47-52页 |
| ·Semantic Deviation | 第52-61页 |
| ·Deviation in Oliver Twist at the Non-Linguistic Level | 第61-65页 |
| ·Deviation of Narrative Point of View | 第62-63页 |
| ·Schema Deviation | 第63-65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-67页 |
| Chapter Five Over-Regularity in Oliver Twist | 第67-75页 |
| ·Syntactic Over-Regularity | 第67-71页 |
| ·Repetition | 第67-69页 |
| ·Parallelism | 第69-71页 |
| ·Semantic Over-Regularity | 第71-73页 |
| ·Summary | 第73-75页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第75-79页 |
| ·Summary of the Present Study | 第75-76页 |
| ·Limitations of This Thesis and Suggestions for Further Study | 第76-77页 |
| ·Implications of This Study | 第77-79页 |
| Bibliography | 第79-83页 |
