| 摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第4-7页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第7-11页 |
| ·Research Motivations | 第7-9页 |
| ·The Importance of the Study of Business English | 第7页 |
| ·The Importance of the Study of Compound Adjectives in BE | 第7-9页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第11-28页 |
| ·A Historical Review of Business English | 第11-18页 |
| ·English for Specific Purposes (ESP) | 第11-14页 |
| ·The definition of ESP | 第11-13页 |
| ·The development of ESP | 第13-14页 |
| ·The definition of Business English | 第14-15页 |
| ·Business English in an ESP context | 第15-17页 |
| ·Business English investigations in China | 第17-18页 |
| ·A Review of Present Research Results on Compound Adjectives in BE | 第18-28页 |
| ·The definition of compound and compounding | 第18-20页 |
| ·Motivations for compounding | 第20-21页 |
| ·Compounds and non-compounds | 第21-24页 |
| ·Orthographical criterion | 第22-23页 |
| ·Phonological criterion | 第23页 |
| ·Grammatical criterion | 第23-24页 |
| ·Semantic criteria | 第24页 |
| ·Classification of compounds | 第24-25页 |
| ·Characteristics of compounds | 第25-26页 |
| ·A brief comment on the study | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Three The Structure and Semantics of Compound Adjectives in BE | 第28-41页 |
| ·Tendency of compound adjectives in BE in number | 第28-30页 |
| ·Orthographic and phonological tendencies of compound adjectives in BE | 第30-32页 |
| ·Orthographic tendency | 第30-31页 |
| ·Phonological tendency | 第31-32页 |
| ·Possible morphological structure of compound adjectives in BE | 第32-36页 |
| ·Semantic relations between the components | 第36-39页 |
| ·Syntactic relations of compound adjectives in BE | 第39页 |
| ·A analysis of compound adjectives in BE | 第39页 |
| ·Etymological analysis of compound adjectives in BE | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Four Pedagogical Implications | 第41-47页 |
| ·The meaning and learning mechanism of compound adjectives in BE | 第41-43页 |
| ·The meaning of compound adjectives in BE | 第41页 |
| ·The learning mechanism of the acquisition | 第41-43页 |
| ·Necessity of conceptual metaphor in the learning of compound adjectives in BE | 第43-44页 |
| ·Approaches to the compound adjectives in BE acquisition | 第44-45页 |
| ·Incidental acquisition | 第44-45页 |
| ·Intentional instruction | 第45页 |
| ·Application of strategy | 第45页 |
| ·Inspirations to the teaching of compound adjectives in BE | 第45-46页 |
| ·Intra-lingual and extra-lingual knowledge of compound adjectives in BE | 第45-46页 |
| ·The creation of an environment to apply compound adjectives in BE | 第46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第47-49页 |
| ·A brief summary | 第47页 |
| ·Novelty | 第47页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第47-49页 |
| References | 第49-52页 |
| 个人简介 | 第52-53页 |
| 导师简介 | 第53-54页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第54页 |
