| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT (English) | 第5-7页 |
| ABSTRACT (Chinese) | 第7-9页 |
| CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION | 第9-14页 |
| CHAPTER TWO: ANTONYMY FROM SEMANTIC POINT OF VIEW | 第14-32页 |
| 2.1 Antonymy as a different kind of semantic relation | 第14-16页 |
| 2.2 A semantic approach to antonymy | 第16-32页 |
| 2.2.1 Antonyms in the narrow sense---gradable opposites | 第18-24页 |
| 2.2.2 Antonyms in the wider sense---other types of opposites | 第24-28页 |
| 2.2.3 Indirect antonyms---near-opposites | 第28-32页 |
| CHAPTER THREE: ANTONYMY FROM RHETORICAL POINT OF VIEW | 第32-52页 |
| 3.1 The rhetorical use of antonymy | 第32-33页 |
| 3.2 Bases for the rhetorical use of antonymy | 第33-36页 |
| 3.3 Linguistic analysis of the rhetorical use of antonymy | 第36-46页 |
| 3.3.1 The normal and idiomatic use of antonymy | 第36-40页 |
| 3.3.2 The ”abnormal” use of antonymy | 第40-46页 |
| 3.4 The operation mechanism of antonymy in rhetoric and the rhetorical effect | 第46-52页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR: CONCLUSION | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-55页 |