| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract (in English) | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract (in Chinese) | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-18页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Objective of the Study | 第13-15页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第16-17页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-28页 |
| ·The Brief Introduction of Semantic Prosody | 第18-22页 |
| ·Sinclair's Definition | 第18-19页 |
| ·Stubbs' Definition | 第19页 |
| ·Partington's Definition | 第19-20页 |
| ·Hunston's Definition | 第20-21页 |
| ·Domestic Research on Semantic Prosody | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Relationship between Collocation and Semantic Prosody | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Study of Semantic Prosody of Cause | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Study of Semantic Prosody of Lead to | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Foundation | 第28-36页 |
| ·Source of the Theory of Semantic Prosody | 第28-31页 |
| ·Analysis of Firth's Prosody | 第28页 |
| ·Context Theory and Research of Collocation | 第28-29页 |
| ·Theory of Context | 第29页 |
| ·The Study of Collocation | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Possibility of Study of Semantic Prosody With Corpus | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Theoretical Framework | 第31-34页 |
| ·What is Semantic Prosody? | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Classification of Semantic Prosody | 第32-34页 |
| ·The Research Methods of Semantic Prosody | 第34-36页 |
| ·Form Colligation to Describe Semantic Prosody of the Key Word | 第34-35页 |
| ·Use Data-Driven Approach to Study Semantic Prosody | 第35-36页 |
| Chapter Four Research Methodology | 第36-42页 |
| ·Data for the Study | 第36页 |
| ·Materials Employed in the Study | 第36-39页 |
| ·Corpus-based Study | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Design of the Test Paper | 第37-39页 |
| ·Methods of the Study | 第39-40页 |
| ·Quantitative and Qualitative Methods | 第39页 |
| ·The Software and the Statistic Measure Employed in the Study | 第39-40页 |
| ·Research Procedures | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Five Results Analyses | 第42-62页 |
| ·Analysis of the Results of the Corpus-based Study | 第42-45页 |
| ·The Result Analyses of the Study of the Test Paper | 第45-62页 |
| ·The Overall Difference of Awareness of Semantic Prosody Between Undergraduates and Postgraduates | 第45-48页 |
| ·The Awareness of Different Semantic Prosodies of Cause and Lead to | 第48-62页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第62-72页 |
| ·Major Findings in the Study | 第62-65页 |
| ·Results | 第63-64页 |
| ·The Problems and the Analysis of the Reasons | 第64-65页 |
| ·Possible Solutions to Problems of Semantic Prosody for Chinese EFL Teaching | 第65-70页 |
| ·To Intensify the Semantic Prosody Awareness to Minimize Mother Tongue Interference | 第66-68页 |
| ·To Improve the Cognitive Awareness to Solve the Intralingual Problems | 第68-70页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第70-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-80页 |
| Appendix | 第80页 |
