| Declaration | 第1-4页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-12页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第12-13页 |
| List of tables | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-21页 |
| ·Research orientation | 第14页 |
| ·Research rationale | 第14-18页 |
| ·Necessity to separate CELD for EFL learners from that for CFL learners | 第14-15页 |
| ·Specific features of examples in CELD for Chinese EFL users—users' friendly perspective | 第15-17页 |
| ·Theoretical support for example construction in CELD for EFL learners—Frame Semantics and FrameNet | 第17-18页 |
| ·Methodology | 第18-19页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two The Important Roles of Examples in CELD | 第21-30页 |
| ·Introduction | 第21页 |
| ·The Essential Function of Examples in LD--a literature review | 第21-25页 |
| ·Functions relevant to decoding | 第22-24页 |
| ·Functions relevant to encoding | 第24-25页 |
| ·The important roles of examples in CELD | 第25-29页 |
| ·The productive feature of CELD and its examples | 第26页 |
| ·Complementation of meaning | 第26-27页 |
| ·Disambiguation of synonymous equivalents | 第27-28页 |
| ·Manifestation of the concrete use of equivalents | 第28-29页 |
| ·Summary | 第29-30页 |
| Chapter Three Proposed Features for Examples in CELD | 第30-47页 |
| ·Features of examples in the present CED | 第30-33页 |
| ·Survey Study—Users' perspective | 第33-40页 |
| ·Method | 第33-34页 |
| ·Result and analysis | 第34-39页 |
| ·Amount of possession | 第34页 |
| ·Frequencies: | 第34-36页 |
| ·Treatment for more than one equivalent | 第36-37页 |
| ·Satisfactory: CED | 第37页 |
| ·Attitude: Examples | 第37-38页 |
| ·Attitude: information in CED | 第38-39页 |
| ·Summary of the Survey research | 第39-40页 |
| ·Case Study—the defect of the exemplification system in the present CEDs | 第40-44页 |
| ·Proposed features for example in CELD | 第44-46页 |
| ·English-oriented | 第45页 |
| ·Sentence-oriented | 第45页 |
| ·Typical and concise | 第45-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter Four Frame Semantics, FrameNet and Lexicography | 第47-65页 |
| ·Frame Semantics-An Introduction | 第47-52页 |
| ·Semantic Frame | 第48-49页 |
| ·Lexical Unit | 第49-50页 |
| ·Frame Element | 第50-51页 |
| ·The role of Frame Semantics in Lexicography | 第51-52页 |
| ·FrameNet | 第52-62页 |
| ·Introduction | 第52-54页 |
| ·Database of FrameNet | 第54-57页 |
| ·Annotation of FrameNet | 第57-62页 |
| ·Core FE and Non-core FE | 第57-61页 |
| ·Valence | 第61-62页 |
| ·The role of FrameNet in Lexicography | 第62-63页 |
| ·Principle for selection | 第63页 |
| ·Complete Semantic and Syntactic description | 第63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter Five Contribution of Frame Theory to Example Construction in CELD | 第65-81页 |
| ·Introduction | 第65页 |
| ·Sense analysis | 第65-71页 |
| ·Sense differentiation | 第66-69页 |
| ·Semantic Prosody | 第69-71页 |
| ·Disambiguating near synonyms | 第71-75页 |
| ·Syntactic Pattern Description | 第75-79页 |
| ·Summary | 第79-81页 |
| Chapter Six Proposed Model for Examples in CELD | 第81-90页 |
| ·Introduction | 第81页 |
| ·Proposed microstructure of examples as well as entries in CELD | 第81-84页 |
| ·Equivalents and examples should be grouped according to part of speech | 第81-82页 |
| ·English example should go before its Chinese version | 第82-83页 |
| ·Group those typically fixed expression together as phrase examples | 第83-84页 |
| ·Using additional information to highlight the semantic and syntactic features of examples | 第84页 |
| ·Mechanism for selecting the examples in CELD | 第84-87页 |
| ·Two ways of traditional treatments of example selection | 第84-86页 |
| ·Superiority of example selection based on FN | 第86-87页 |
| ·Proposed model for examples treatment in CELD for Chinese EFL learners | 第87-88页 |
| ·Summary | 第88-90页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第90-93页 |
| ·Main issues solved in this thesis | 第90-91页 |
| ·CELDs should be grouped according to their users | 第90页 |
| ·Examples in CELD should be English-oriented | 第90页 |
| ·Applying Frame Semantic and FN to practical examples construction | 第90-91页 |
| ·Model establishment | 第91页 |
| ·Limitation of the present study | 第91-92页 |
| ·Insufficient literature | 第91页 |
| ·Insufficient access to the FN database | 第91-92页 |
| ·Suggestion for Further Study | 第92-93页 |
| Bibliography | 第93-99页 |
| Ⅰ Dictionaries used | 第93页 |
| Ⅱ Other references | 第93-99页 |
| Appendix A | 第99-101页 |
| Appendix B | 第101-125页 |
