| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-15页 |
| Chapter 2 The Arbitrary and Iconic Views about Language | 第15-27页 |
| ·The Arbitrary View about Language | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Iconic View about Language | 第16-27页 |
| ·From semiotic point of view | 第17-22页 |
| ·From cognitive point of view | 第22-24页 |
| ·From functional point of view | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Iconicity of Language on Different Levels | 第27-46页 |
| ·Iconicity on Phonological Level | 第27-34页 |
| ·Primary phonological iconicity | 第27-33页 |
| ·Auditory iconicity | 第27-29页 |
| ·Articulatory iconicity | 第29-30页 |
| ·Associative iconicity | 第30-33页 |
| ·Secondary phonological iconicity | 第33-34页 |
| ·Iconicity on Word Level | 第34-36页 |
| ·Iconicity on graphology | 第34页 |
| ·Iconicity on word formation | 第34-36页 |
| ·Iconicity on Syntactic Level | 第36-46页 |
| ·The principle of distance iconicity | 第36-38页 |
| ·The principle of sequence iconicity | 第38-40页 |
| ·The principle of quantity iconicity | 第40-43页 |
| ·The principle of markedness iconicity | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter 4 Application of Iconic Theory to English Teaching | 第46-84页 |
| ·Application of Iconicity to Vocabulary Teaching | 第46-56页 |
| ·Phonological iconicity | 第48-50页 |
| ·Semantic iconicity | 第50-53页 |
| ·Morphological iconicity | 第53-56页 |
| ·Derivatives | 第53-55页 |
| ·Compounds | 第55-56页 |
| ·Application of Iconicity to Grammar Teaching | 第56-64页 |
| ·The iconic phrases | 第56-59页 |
| ·Finite attribute clause vs. Infinite attribute clause | 第59-60页 |
| ·Word order | 第60-61页 |
| ·Contrast between Chinese and English on temporal sequence | 第61-64页 |
| ·Application of Iconicity to Literary Texts | 第64-76页 |
| ·Iconic rendering of emotion | 第65-67页 |
| ·Iconic rendering of turns | 第67-69页 |
| ·Iconic rendering of rhetoric —ellipsis and repetition | 第69-70页 |
| ·Iconic functions of long and short lines | 第70-74页 |
| ·Alphabetic letters as icons in literary texts | 第74-75页 |
| ·Graphological forms as icons in literary texts | 第75-76页 |
| ·Test Design | 第76-84页 |
| ·Aims | 第77页 |
| ·Research questions | 第77页 |
| ·Subjects | 第77-78页 |
| ·Instruments | 第78页 |
| ·Procedure | 第78-79页 |
| ·Results and analysis | 第79-84页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第84-86页 |
| Bibliography | 第86-91页 |
| Appendix | 第91-95页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第95-99页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第99-104页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第104页 |
