| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-12页 |
| ·Objectives | 第8页 |
| ·Significance | 第8-9页 |
| ·Retrospection of the Research of Lexical Relations | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter Two Lexical Relations and Approaches to Lexical Relations | 第12-25页 |
| ·Lexical Relations | 第12-19页 |
| ·Homonymy | 第12页 |
| ·polysemy | 第12-14页 |
| ·Synonymy | 第14-15页 |
| ·Antonymy | 第15-17页 |
| ·Hyponymy | 第17-18页 |
| ·Meronymy | 第18-19页 |
| ·Member-collection | 第19页 |
| ·Portion-mass | 第19页 |
| ·Approaches to Lexical Relations | 第19-25页 |
| ·Structuralistic Approach | 第20-21页 |
| ·Formalistic Approach | 第21-23页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第25-34页 |
| ·The Classical View on Category | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Concept of 'Category' | 第25页 |
| ·The Aristotelian View on Category | 第25-26页 |
| ·Evaluation of the Aristotelian View on Category | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Modern View on Category—Prototype Theory | 第27-34页 |
| ·Wittgenstein and 'Family Resemblance' | 第27-28页 |
| ·Rosch and 'Prototype' | 第28-30页 |
| ·Labov and 'Fuzziness' | 第30-31页 |
| ·Characteristics of Prototypicality | 第31-32页 |
| ·Basic Knowledge about 'Prototype' | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Four Prototypical Effects in Polysemy and Cognitive Motivation of Polysemy | 第34-45页 |
| ·Prototypical Characteristics of Polysemy | 第34-35页 |
| ·Prototypical Effects in Polysemy | 第35-37页 |
| ·A Case Study of Crawl | 第35-37页 |
| ·Prototypical Nature of Crawl | 第37页 |
| ·Cognitive Motivation by the Extension of Prototype Theory | 第37-45页 |
| ·Other Cognitive Devices | 第37-41页 |
| ·Over as an Illustration of the Motivation of Polysemy | 第41-43页 |
| ·Analysis of the Nature of over | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter Five Prototypical Effects in Synonymy and Cognitive Motivation of Synonymy | 第45-53页 |
| ·Discrimination of Synonyms | 第45-46页 |
| ·Prototypical Effects in Synonymy | 第46-52页 |
| ·Prototypical Characteristics of Synonymy | 第46页 |
| ·Cruse's Analysis of Synonymy | 第46-49页 |
| ·Some Cases Study | 第49-52页 |
| ·Cognitive Motivation of Synonymy | 第52-53页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第53-56页 |
| ·Some Implications and Shortcomings | 第53-54页 |
| ·Implications on EFL Vocabulary Instruction | 第53页 |
| ·Implications on Dictionary Compiling | 第53-54页 |
| ·Shortcomings of Prototype Theory | 第54-55页 |
| ·Some Findings | 第55-56页 |
| Bibliography | 第56-60页 |
| 攻读硕士期间公开发表的学术论文 | 第60-61页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第61页 |
