| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Table of Contents | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第12-17页 |
| ·Research Background | 第12-14页 |
| ·Research Motivation and Aims | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Significance of This Research | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Organization of This Research | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF FOREGROUNDING THEORY | 第17-29页 |
| ·Historical Origins of Foregrounding Theory | 第17-18页 |
| ·Formalism and Shklovsky’s “Defamiliarization” | 第18-19页 |
| ·Structuralism and Mukarovsky’s “Foregrounding” | 第19-20页 |
| ·Jakobson’s Idea of “Parallelism” | 第20-22页 |
| ·Leech’s Classification of Foregrounding | 第22-24页 |
| ·Halliday’s Distinction between “Prominence and Foregrounding” | 第24-26页 |
| ·Van Peer’s Pragmatic View on Foregrounding | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter Three A COGNITIVE INQUIRY INTO FOREGROUNDING | 第29-42页 |
| ·Cognitive Stylistics: From Interpreting to Experiencing Literature | 第29-30页 |
| ·Foregrounding and Its Effect on Readers | 第30-42页 |
| ·Foregrounding and Defamiliarization | 第32-33页 |
| ·Foregrounding and Feeling | 第33-38页 |
| ·The Constructive Role of Feeling | 第34-36页 |
| ·Aesthetic Feelings and Feeling-guided Boundary Crossing | 第36页 |
| ·Self-implicating Nature of Aesthetically Enhanced Boundary Crossing | 第36-37页 |
| ·Modifying Feelings and Metaphor Generation | 第37-38页 |
| ·Shifting Perspectives and Refamiliarization | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Four COGNITIVE STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF FOREGROUNDING IN “SAILING TO BYZANTIUM” | 第42-53页 |
| ·Stanza One: Figure is the Young | 第43-46页 |
| ·Stanza Two: Old Man Becomes the Figure | 第46-48页 |
| ·Stanza Three: Praying for God’s Guidance | 第48-50页 |
| ·Stanza Four: Golden Art is Immortal | 第50-53页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第53-56页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第53-54页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第54-55页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第55-56页 |
| References | 第56-59页 |
