| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter 1. Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Purpose and basic assumptions | 第9-10页 |
| ·Specification of terminology | 第10-11页 |
| ·Research method and organization of the thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 2. Conceptual approaches to word meaning | 第12-31页 |
| ·The issue of word meaning | 第12-14页 |
| ·General assumptions of conceptual approaches | 第14-16页 |
| ·Models of conceptual structure | 第16-22页 |
| ·Image schema theory | 第16-17页 |
| ·Categorization and ICMs | 第17-18页 |
| ·Conceptual metaphor and metonymy | 第18-19页 |
| ·Mental spaces and conceptual blending | 第19-21页 |
| ·Conceptual frames | 第21-22页 |
| ·Aspects of word meaning | 第22-29页 |
| ·Conventional and contextual aspects | 第23-24页 |
| ·Relevance-inferential aspects | 第24-25页 |
| ·Contextualism: use-conditional aspect | 第25-26页 |
| ·Intentionality as word meaning | 第26页 |
| ·Encyclopedic nature of word meaning | 第26-28页 |
| ·The protean nature of word meaning | 第28-29页 |
| ·Limitations of conceptual approaches | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter 3. Neural approaches to word meaning | 第31-43页 |
| ·Approaching word meaning from within human brain | 第31页 |
| ·Findings from general neurolinguistics | 第31-35页 |
| ·Mental semantic representation | 第32-33页 |
| ·Semantic relations: lesion studies | 第33页 |
| ·Word meaning problems with right-hemisphere lesions | 第33-34页 |
| ·Word and meaning mapping models | 第34-35页 |
| ·Findings from neuroimaging studies | 第35-39页 |
| ·Aspects of word representations | 第35-36页 |
| ·Non-word information activations | 第36-37页 |
| ·Right hemisphere activations | 第37-38页 |
| ·Future neuroimaging orientations | 第38-39页 |
| ·Findings from neuroscience | 第39-43页 |
| ·The neural bio-electrochemical process | 第39-40页 |
| ·Word meaning as memory | 第40-41页 |
| ·Meaning as neural correlate of consciousness | 第41-42页 |
| ·A reductionist view | 第42-43页 |
| Chapter 4. A Neurocognitive perspective on word meaning | 第43-52页 |
| ·Word meaning instantiation process | 第43-44页 |
| ·A case description of word and meaning process | 第44-45页 |
| ·Neurocognitive accommodationism | 第45-46页 |
| ·Neurocognitive interpretation of metaphor | 第46-47页 |
| ·Word meaning revisited in neurocognitive terms | 第47-49页 |
| ·A neurocognitive philosophy of word meaning and truth | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter 5. Conclusion | 第52-55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-60页 |
