| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-17页 |
| ·Traditional study of English passives | 第13页 |
| ·Structural view of English passives | 第13-14页 |
| ·Transformational study of English passives | 第14页 |
| ·Functional and cognitive study of English passives | 第14-15页 |
| ·Cognitive approach to English passives | 第15页 |
| ·Purpose and organization of the present study | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 the Theoretical Basis for she Analysis of the English Passives | 第17-33页 |
| ·Situation types | 第17-20页 |
| ·States vs non-states | 第18页 |
| ·Accomplishments vs achievements | 第18页 |
| ·Processes vs events | 第18-20页 |
| ·Prototype theory of categorization | 第20-21页 |
| ·Langacker' s canonical event model | 第21-22页 |
| ·Croft's causal model | 第22-24页 |
| ·Perspectivization and conception of situations | 第24-26页 |
| ·Perspectives and participant roles | 第26-29页 |
| ·Perspectives and English passives | 第29-33页 |
| Chapter 3 the Constructing mechanism of the English passives | 第33-47页 |
| ·Transitivity and passivizability | 第33-37页 |
| ·Affectedness and passivizability | 第37-41页 |
| ·Conceptualization of English passives | 第41-47页 |
| Chapter 4 Conception and Categorization of the English passives | 第47-58页 |
| ·The prototype of English passives—the processual passive | 第48-50页 |
| ·The agentless and agentful processual passive | 第49-50页 |
| ·Non-prototypical passives | 第50-56页 |
| ·The inchoative passive | 第50-51页 |
| ·The stative passive | 第51-53页 |
| ·The featuring passive | 第53-55页 |
| ·The portraying passive | 第55-56页 |
| ·Classification of English passives | 第56-58页 |
| Chapter 5 Pragmatic Operation of the English Passives | 第58-74页 |
| ·The information principle and the principle of end-weight | 第58-59页 |
| ·Prototypical functions of the English Passives | 第59-61页 |
| ·Demotion of the agent | 第59-60页 |
| ·Promotion of the patient | 第60-61页 |
| ·Passives and textual focus | 第61-63页 |
| ·Focalising the verbal part of a clause | 第62页 |
| ·Focalising the agent of a clause | 第62-63页 |
| ·Passives and textual ties | 第63-68页 |
| ·Passives and consistent themes | 第63-66页 |
| ·Passives and textual mind style | 第66-68页 |
| ·Passives and register | 第68-70页 |
| ·Passives and rhetoric | 第70-71页 |
| ·Passives and conversational implicature | 第71-74页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第74-77页 |
| Bibliography | 第77-81页 |
