| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-13页 |
| List of Tables | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-20页 |
| ·Background of the Present Study | 第14-16页 |
| ·Purpose of the Present Study | 第16-18页 |
| ·Overall Structure of the Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第20-46页 |
| ·Conceptual Blending Theory | 第20-32页 |
| ·An Overview of Conceptual Blending Networks | 第20-24页 |
| ·The Process of Blending | 第24-29页 |
| ·Optimality Principles | 第29-32页 |
| ·Some Basic Types of Conceptual Blending Networks | 第32-36页 |
| ·Single Framing Networks | 第33页 |
| ·Frame Networks | 第33-34页 |
| ·One-sided Shared Topology Networks | 第34-35页 |
| ·Two-sided Shared Topology Networks | 第35-36页 |
| ·Definition and Explanation of Reading | 第36-41页 |
| ·Definition of Reading | 第37-38页 |
| ·Psychological Mechanism of Readers | 第38-39页 |
| ·Three Stages in Reading Process | 第39-41页 |
| ·Some Previous Theories on Reading Researches | 第41-46页 |
| ·Information Processing Reading Theory | 第41-44页 |
| ·Schema Theory | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology | 第46-55页 |
| ·Hypothesis of the Study | 第46-47页 |
| ·Subjects | 第47页 |
| ·Procedure | 第47-50页 |
| ·Instruments | 第50-52页 |
| ·Questionnaires | 第50页 |
| ·Test | 第50-52页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analysis | 第52-55页 |
| ·Quantitative analysis of Questionnaires | 第52-53页 |
| ·Quantitative analysis of Pre-test Papers | 第53-54页 |
| ·Quantitative analysis of Post-test Papers | 第54-55页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Discussion | 第55-71页 |
| ·Results | 第55-61页 |
| ·Results of Questionnaires | 第55-59页 |
| ·Results of Test Papers | 第59-61页 |
| ·Discussion | 第61-71页 |
| ·Effectiveness of Applying Conceptual Blending Theory on Students’ Meaning Construction in Reading | 第62-63页 |
| ·Application of Conceptual Blending Theory on Readers’ Meaning Construction in Reading | 第63-71页 |
| ·Meaning Construction on the Discourse Level From Four Mental Spaces | 第63-66页 |
| ·Meaning Construction on the Sentence Level in Four Basic Types of Conceptual Blending Theory | 第66-71页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第71-76页 |
| ·Major Findings and Implications of the Study | 第71-73页 |
| ·Limitations of Present Study | 第73-74页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Researches | 第74-76页 |
| References | 第76-78页 |
| Appendix A | 第78-81页 |
