| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第15-27页 |
| ·Previous Research on the Cleft Sentence | 第15-24页 |
| ·Related Research Abroad | 第16-22页 |
| ·Traditional Analyses | 第16-17页 |
| ·Transformational Analysis | 第17-19页 |
| ·Informational-based Approach | 第19-20页 |
| ·Discourse-oriented Approach | 第20-22页 |
| ·Related Research at home | 第22-24页 |
| ·Comments on the Previous Research | 第24-26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundations | 第27-39页 |
| ·The Prominence View | 第27-32页 |
| ·The Figure/Ground Theory | 第32-36页 |
| ·The Figure/Ground Theory in Gestalt Psychology | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Figure/Ground Theory in Cognitive Linguistics | 第34-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Three A Cognitive Account of the Generation of the Cleft Sentence | 第39-73页 |
| ·Syntactic Features of the Cleft Sentence | 第39-45页 |
| ·The Cognitive Motivation of the Generation of the Cleft Sentence | 第45-66页 |
| ·Conventional Prominence and Its Grammatical Realization | 第47-54页 |
| ·Lexicalization | 第48-50页 |
| ·Profiling | 第50-54页 |
| ·Contextual Prominence and the Generation of the Cleft Sentence | 第54-66页 |
| ·Marked Subjects | 第55-60页 |
| ·Marked Grammatical Constructions | 第60-66页 |
| ·The Cognitive Process of the Generation of the Cleft Sentence | 第66-70页 |
| ·Summary | 第70-73页 |
| Chapter Four A Cognitive Aecount of the Use of the Cleft Sentence | 第73-91页 |
| ·Prominence and Grammatical Constraints on the Cleft Sentence | 第73-83页 |
| ·Prominence and Constraints on the Verb | 第74-75页 |
| ·Prominence and Constraints on the Subject Complement | 第75-76页 |
| ·Prominence and Constraints on the Object | 第76-80页 |
| ·Prominence and Constraints on Adjuncts | 第80-83页 |
| ·Prominence and Pragmatic Significance of the Cleft Sentence | 第83-89页 |
| ·Presupposition | 第83-86页 |
| ·Implicature | 第86-88页 |
| ·Rhetoric Function | 第88-89页 |
| ·Summary | 第89-91页 |
| Conclusion | 第91-95页 |
| Bibliography | 第95-101页 |
| Appendix | 第101-103页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第103-105页 |
