| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第15-20页 |
| ·Overview | 第15-17页 |
| ·Theoretical basis | 第17-18页 |
| ·Research questions | 第18页 |
| ·Data and methodology | 第18-19页 |
| ·Structure of the thesis | 第19页 |
| Notes to chapter 1 | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Illustrative Example Types | 第20-29页 |
| ·Introduction | 第20-21页 |
| ·Invented and authentic examples | 第21-24页 |
| ·Invented examples | 第21-22页 |
| ·Authentic examples | 第22-24页 |
| ·Phrase,sentence and discourse examples | 第24-25页 |
| ·Phrase examples | 第24-25页 |
| ·Sentence examples | 第25页 |
| ·Discourse examples | 第25页 |
| ·Written and spoken examples | 第25-27页 |
| ·Written examples | 第26-27页 |
| ·Spoken examples | 第27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| Notes to chapter 2 | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter 3 Criteria to Define spoken English | 第29-36页 |
| ·Introduction | 第29页 |
| ·Conversational characteristics of spoken English | 第29-30页 |
| ·Hesitation | 第29页 |
| ·Repeats | 第29-30页 |
| ·Repairs | 第30页 |
| ·Blends | 第30页 |
| ·Incompletion | 第30页 |
| ·Pragmatic characteristics of spoken English | 第30-31页 |
| ·Adjacency and preference | 第30-31页 |
| ·Vague reference | 第31页 |
| ·Expression of emotion | 第31页 |
| ·Vernacular | 第31页 |
| ·Grammatical characteristics of spoken English | 第31-32页 |
| ·Ellipsis | 第32页 |
| ·Contraction | 第32页 |
| ·Number | 第32页 |
| ·Tense | 第32页 |
| ·Lexical characteristics of spoken English | 第32-35页 |
| ·Preference of common words | 第32-33页 |
| ·Limited lexicon | 第33页 |
| ·Meaning radiation | 第33页 |
| ·Abstraction | 第33-34页 |
| ·Inexact words | 第34页 |
| ·Phrasal words | 第34页 |
| ·Slang words | 第34-35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35-36页 |
| Chapter4 Distribution of Example Types and Discussions | 第36-52页 |
| ·Introduction | 第36页 |
| ·A case study of "actually" | 第36-41页 |
| ·Illustrative examples of"actually" in LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第37页 |
| ·Classification of examples of"actually" in LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第37-40页 |
| ·Examples of"actually" in COBUILD's Wordbank | 第40页 |
| ·"Actually" in Leech's frequency lists of written and spoken English | 第40-41页 |
| ·Findings and evaluation of the treatments of LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第41页 |
| ·An Overall picture of example distribution in LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第41-47页 |
| ·Number distribution of spoken and written examples in LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第42-43页 |
| ·Comparison of the average distribution of spoken and written illustrative examples in LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第43-44页 |
| ·Detailed example distribution of the 100 chosen headwords in LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第44-47页 |
| ·Example distribution of common words | 第47-50页 |
| ·Number distribution of spoken and written examples of the 400 sampled words between LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第47-48页 |
| ·Comparison of the average distribution of spoken and written illustrative examples of the 40 chosen words in LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第48-49页 |
| ·Detailed example distribution of the 40 chosen words in LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第49-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Notes to chapter 4 | 第51-52页 |
| Chapter 5 Findings and Conclusion | 第52-55页 |
| ·Findings | 第52-53页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for this study | 第53-54页 |
| ·Implications and conclusions of this study | 第54-55页 |
| Cited Dictionaries | 第55-56页 |
| References | 第56-58页 |
| Appendix 1 100 chosen words in English | 第58-59页 |
| Appendix 2 Leech's frequency list of the 100 chosen words | 第59-64页 |
| Appendix 3 40 chosen words in the 3000 most frequent words in spoken English | 第64-65页 |
| Appendix 4 Detailed example distribution of the 100 chosen words in LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第65-72页 |
| Appendix 5 Detailed example distribution of the 40 chosen words in LDOCE2 and LDOCE3 | 第72-75页 |
| Papers Published | 第75页 |
