| Chapter I Introduction | 第1-10页 |
| 1．1 Backdrop of study | 第8-9页 |
| 1．2 The organizational framework of the thesis | 第9页 |
| 1．3 Aims and purpose | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter II Birth and Development of Prototype Theory | 第10-19页 |
| 2．1 The classical view of category | 第10-11页 |
| 2．1．1 The concept of'category' | 第10页 |
| 2．1．2 The Aristotelian view of category and its assumptions | 第10-11页 |
| 2．2 The modern view of category—Prototype Theory | 第11-14页 |
| 2．2．1 Wittgenstein's contribution | 第11-13页 |
| 2．2．2 Rosch's contribution | 第13-14页 |
| 2．2．3 Other's contributions | 第14页 |
| 2．3 Basic knowledge about 'prototype' | 第14-16页 |
| 2．3．1 Prototypes and Prototype Theory | 第14-15页 |
| 2．3．2 The sources of prototypes | 第15页 |
| 2．3．3 Properties of Prototype Category | 第15-16页 |
| 2．3．4 Two ways to understand prototypes | 第16页 |
| 2．4 Relationship between classical view and prototype view | 第16-18页 |
| 2．4．1 Reassessment of the classical view | 第17-18页 |
| 2．4．2 The place where the two theories mesh in | 第18页 |
| 2．5 Evaluation of Prototype Theory | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter III Prototypical Effects in Morphosyntax | 第19-36页 |
| 3．1 Affix | 第19-20页 |
| 3．2 Word | 第20-24页 |
| 3．3 Syntactic construction | 第24-26页 |
| 3．4 Prototypical effects in sentence structure | 第26-30页 |
| 3．5 Prototypical effects in supra-sentential unity | 第30-33页 |
| 3．6 Cognitive motivations for prototypical effects in Morphosyntax | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter IV Prototypical Effects in Semantics | 第36-53页 |
| 4．1 Word meaning | 第36-40页 |
| 4．2 Monocentric category and Polycentric category | 第40-42页 |
| 4．3 Polysemous category | 第42-50页 |
| 4．3．1 Category extension | 第42-44页 |
| 4．3．2 Polysemy in Austin's way | 第44页 |
| 4．3．3 Polysemous items | 第44-50页 |
| 4．4 Cognitive motivations for prototypical effects in Semantics | 第50-53页 |
| Chapter V Prototypical Effects in Use of Language | 第53-66页 |
| 5． 1 Prototypical effects in Deixis | 第53-56页 |
| 5．1．1 Deixis's pragmatic implicature | 第53页 |
| 5．1．2 Typical deixis | 第53-55页 |
| 5．1．3 Atypical deixis | 第55-56页 |
| 5． 2 Prototypical effects in Hedges | 第56-60页 |
| 5． 3 Prototypical effects in Speech act | 第60-61页 |
| 5． 4 Prototypical effects in Conversational implicature | 第61-63页 |
| 5．4．1 Accordance with CP | 第61-62页 |
| 5．4．2 Violation of CP | 第62-63页 |
| 5．5 Cognitive motivations for prototypical effects in Use of Language | 第63-66页 |
| Chapter VI Conclusion | 第66-68页 |
| 6．1 Significance | 第66-67页 |
| 6．2 Expectation | 第67-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-72页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第72页 |
