| Acknowledgments | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| ·Background of Cognitive Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Methodology of the Study | 第13页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter Two An Overview on Studies of the Historical Present Tense | 第15-23页 |
| ·Historical Present Tense in Narrative | 第15-19页 |
| ·Traditional Theory of Historical Present Tense | 第15-16页 |
| ·Semantic View of Historical Present Tense | 第16-17页 |
| ·Syntactic View of Historical Present Tense | 第17页 |
| ·Conversational Historical Present | 第17-18页 |
| ·Historical Present in the Theory of Consciousness | 第18-19页 |
| ·Arguments and Hypotheses | 第19-21页 |
| ·Arguments of Previous Study | 第19页 |
| ·Hypotheses | 第19-21页 |
| ·Speech Act Hypothesis | 第20页 |
| ·Single Speaker Hypothesis | 第20-21页 |
| ·Third Person Hypothesis | 第21页 |
| ·Summary | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter Three Viewing Arrangement and Tense-Alternation | 第23-45页 |
| ·Cognitive Grammar | 第23-26页 |
| ·Construal | 第23-24页 |
| ·Stage Model | 第24-26页 |
| ·Viewing Arrangement | 第26页 |
| ·Tense and Person | 第26-29页 |
| ·Tense and Person Distribution in Reporting | 第26-28页 |
| ·Person | 第28-29页 |
| ·Elucidation of Reporting Processes | 第29-30页 |
| ·Cognitive Recollection Model | 第30-39页 |
| ·Construal of Perceived Events | 第31页 |
| ·Construal of Remembered Events | 第31-39页 |
| ·Basic Models | 第32-33页 |
| ·Third Person Introducer Models | 第33-35页 |
| ·Self-Involving Models | 第35-39页 |
| ·Self-Identity in Narrative | 第39-41页 |
| ·Maintenance of Ego in Tense-Alternation | 第39-40页 |
| ·Cognitive Monitoring | 第40-41页 |
| ·Psychological Involvement in Narrative | 第41-43页 |
| ·Features of Psychological Involvement | 第41-42页 |
| ·Gradient of Psychological Involvement | 第42-43页 |
| ·"I Says" in Narrative | 第43页 |
| ·Summary | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter Four Tense and Attitude | 第45-55页 |
| ·"Say" and "Said" | 第45-49页 |
| ·Use of "Says" and "Said" in Single Speaker's Speech | 第45-47页 |
| ·Use of "Say" and "Said" in Pair | 第47-49页 |
| ·Attitude Reflection | 第49-53页 |
| ·Attitude of "Said" and "Say" in Conflict | 第49-52页 |
| ·Attitude of "Said" and "Say" in Other Situation | 第52-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-55页 |
| Chapter Five Tense and Consciousness Flow | 第55-66页 |
| ·Consciousness Flow in Narrative | 第55-56页 |
| ·Consciousness Flow and Discourse Introducer Tense | 第56-61页 |
| ·Consciousness Flow in Adjacency Pair | 第56-59页 |
| ·Consciousness in a Single Speaker's Speech | 第59-61页 |
| ·Consciousness Flow in Repetition of Dialogue-Introducers | 第61-64页 |
| ·Pre-Posing Double Dialogue-Introducers | 第61-62页 |
| ·Post-Posing Dialogue-Introducers | 第62-63页 |
| ·Restatements | 第63-64页 |
| ·Summary | 第64-66页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第66-69页 |
| ·Findings of the Study | 第66-67页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Study | 第67-69页 |
| References | 第69-72页 |
