| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Study Objective and Aims | 第12-13页 |
| ·Methodology and Data Collection | 第13页 |
| ·Research Significance | 第13-15页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter 2 A Brief Account of Chinese Xiehouyu | 第16-24页 |
| ·Definition of XHY | 第16-17页 |
| ·Origin and Denomination of XHY | 第17-18页 |
| ·Functions of XHY | 第18-22页 |
| ·Grammatical Functions | 第18-20页 |
| ·Rhetoric Functions | 第20-21页 |
| ·Cognitive Functions | 第21-22页 |
| ·Classification of XHY | 第22-23页 |
| ·Previous Classifications | 第22-23页 |
| ·Classification Adopted in the Present Study | 第23页 |
| ·Summary | 第23-24页 |
| Chapter 3 Introduction to Figure-Ground Theory | 第24-33页 |
| ·Figure and Ground in Perception | 第24-26页 |
| ·Figure and Ground in Language | 第26-32页 |
| ·Definition and Characteristics of Figure/Ground in English | 第26-29页 |
| ·Figure/Ground by Talmy | 第26-28页 |
| ·Figure/Ground by Langacker | 第28-29页 |
| ·Properties of Figure/Ground in Chinese | 第29-32页 |
| ·Summary | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter 4 A Figure-Ground Theoretical Account of Chinese Xiehouyu | 第33-50页 |
| ·Advantages of Cognitive Approach | 第33-34页 |
| ·Identification of Figure and Ground in XHY | 第34-45页 |
| ·Figure and Ground in literal XHY | 第34-35页 |
| ·Figure and Ground in Non-literal XHY | 第35-39页 |
| ·Figure and Ground in XHY with Flexible Structures | 第39-45页 |
| ·Analysis from Cognitive Reference- Point Construction | 第45-48页 |
| ·Cognitive Reference Point | 第45-46页 |
| ·Analysis of Figure/Ground in XHY from Reference-Point Construction | 第46-48页 |
| ·Summary | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter 5 Cognitive Motivations of Chinese Xiehouyu | 第50-59页 |
| ·Analysis from Attentional View | 第50-53页 |
| ·Features of Attention | 第50-51页 |
| ·XHY is a Product of Attentional View | 第51-53页 |
| ·Analysis from the Known-to-Unknown Law | 第53-55页 |
| ·Analysis from Relevance Theory | 第55-58页 |
| ·Summary | 第58-59页 |
| Chapter 6 Cognitive Grammatical Significance of Xiehouyu—from Figure/Ground Order Perspective | 第59-73页 |
| ·Two Types of Figure/Ground Order | 第59-64页 |
| ·Ground-before-Figure Order | 第59-62页 |
| ·Figure-before-Ground Order | 第62-64页 |
| ·General Figure/Ground Order in Chinese | 第64-69页 |
| ·Figure/Ground Order in Spatial Sense | 第64-67页 |
| ·Figure/Ground Order beyond Spatial Sense | 第67-69页 |
| ·Figure/Ground Order in XHY and its Cognitive Grammatical Significance | 第69-72页 |
| ·Summary | 第72-73页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第73-76页 |
| References | 第76-78页 |
| 攻读学位期间的研究成果 | 第78页 |
