| Abstract in English | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第6-9页 |
| Typographical Conventions | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·Category Problems in Translation | 第10-11页 |
| ·The Importance of Embodiment | 第11-13页 |
| ·The Theory of Prototypes and Basic-level Categories as a Solution to the Category Problem | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two An Overview of the Theory of Prototypes and Basic-leve Categories | 第15-24页 |
| ·The Classical Category Theory | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Theory of Prototypes and Basic-level Categories | 第16-20页 |
| ·The Differences between the Two Theories | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Bases of Theories | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Horizontal Dimension：the Internal Structures of Categories | 第21页 |
| ·The Vertical Dimension of Categories: the Importance of Each Leve Categories | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Complementary Function of the Theory of Prototypes and Basic-leve Categories to the Classical Category Theory | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Three The Differences of Categorization between English and Chinese Cultures | 第24-34页 |
| ·The Experiment of Chinese College Students’Prototypical Exemplars of Ten Categories | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Context-dependence and Cultural Models of Prototypes and Categories | 第25-28页 |
| ·Non-equivalence of English and Chinese Words in Categories | 第28-34页 |
| ·Non-equivalence in Prototype | 第29-30页 |
| ·Non-equivalence in Category Domain | 第30-31页 |
| ·Non–equivalence at Category Levels | 第31-32页 |
| ·Non-equivalence in Cultural Meanings | 第32页 |
| ·Absences of Categories | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Four the Study of Word Translation from the Perspective of the Theory of Prototypes and Basic-level Categories | 第34-47页 |
| ·The Nature of Word Translation | 第34-35页 |
| ·A Model of Word Translation | 第35-38页 |
| ·The Process of Word Translation | 第38-47页 |
| ·Recategorization | 第38-39页 |
| ·Characters of Recategorization | 第39-42页 |
| ·Recategarization within the Same Category Domain | 第39-41页 |
| ·Levels of Recategorization | 第41-42页 |
| ·Parasitic Reategorization | 第42页 |
| ·Ways of Recategorization | 第42-47页 |
| ·Recategorization by Prototype | 第43-44页 |
| ·Recategorization by Upper-level Categories | 第44页 |
| ·Recategorization by Adding Cultural Model | 第44-47页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第47-49页 |
| Bibliography | 第49-51页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第51页 |
