| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·Topic, Topicalization and Topic Constructon | 第11-14页 |
| ·What is topic? | 第11-12页 |
| ·Topic construction | 第12-13页 |
| ·English style topic construction | 第12-13页 |
| ·Chinese style topic construction | 第13页 |
| ·Topicalization | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Goal of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-43页 |
| ·The Different Definitions of Topic | 第16-22页 |
| ·Topic as given message | 第16-17页 |
| ·Topic as the point of departure of a discourse | 第17-19页 |
| ·Topic as something being talked about | 第19-20页 |
| ·Topic is the basis of communicative dynamism | 第20页 |
| ·Other definitions | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Study on the Division of Topic as a Sentence | 第22-31页 |
| ·The grammatical division of subject and predicate | 第22-25页 |
| ·The functional division of theme and rheme | 第25-28页 |
| ·The discoursal division of topic and comment | 第28-31页 |
| ·Features of Topic | 第31-39页 |
| ·Syntactic features of topic | 第33-36页 |
| ·Initial position | 第33-34页 |
| ·The number of topics allowed in a sentence | 第34页 |
| ·Verbal, clausal and other kinds of topics | 第34页 |
| ·Topic construction and sentence type | 第34-35页 |
| ·Topic marker | 第35-36页 |
| ·Semantic features of topic | 第36-37页 |
| ·Aboutness or framework | 第36页 |
| ·Definiteness | 第36-37页 |
| ·Discourse features of topic | 第37-39页 |
| ·Stress & Contrast | 第38页 |
| ·Topic and reference | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Formation of Topic | 第39-43页 |
| ·Topic as a base-generated constituent | 第39-40页 |
| ·Topic as a movement-generated constituent | 第40-41页 |
| ·The study by Jin Jiling and Yang Shiqiao on topic construction | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter Three The Exploration of Topic From the Perspective of Cognitive Grammar | 第43-63页 |
| ·What is Reference Point Theory? | 第43-45页 |
| ·Reference Point Theory and Topic | 第45-52页 |
| ·Topic referents and topic expressions | 第45-49页 |
| ·Topic and the referent | 第49-50页 |
| ·Topic and topic construction within the framework of reference point theory | 第50-52页 |
| ·Topicalization and its Types | 第52-63页 |
| ·Differences and similarities of topiclization in the English language and the Chinese language | 第52-56页 |
| ·Other researches on topicalization | 第56-63页 |
| ·General constraints | 第57-58页 |
| ·Proposition assessment | 第58-59页 |
| ·Proposition affirmation | 第58-59页 |
| ·Proposition suspension | 第59页 |
| ·Proposition denial | 第59页 |
| ·Topicalization and definiteness | 第59-63页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第63-64页 |
| References | 第64-66页 |
