| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-18页 |
| 1．1 Background for the study | 第12-15页 |
| 1．1．1 Methodology and disciplinary bases | 第12-14页 |
| 1．1．2 Previous studies | 第14-15页 |
| 1．2 Philosophy, metaphysics, linguistics and pragmatics | 第15-17页 |
| 1．3 Layout of the study | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Two Some General Issues Concerned | 第18-34页 |
| 2．1 The concept of metaphysics | 第18-23页 |
| 2．1．1 Etymology | 第18-19页 |
| 2．1．2 Philosophical position | 第19-21页 |
| 2．1．3 Ontology | 第21-22页 |
| 2．1．4 Being, being and beings | 第22-23页 |
| 2．2 The sources of metaphysics | 第23-26页 |
| 2．2．1 Rationalism | 第23-25页 |
| 2．2．2 Logic and epistemology | 第25-26页 |
| 2．3 Language and Being | 第26-33页 |
| 2．3．1 Existence and subsistence | 第27-29页 |
| 2．3．2 Language, thought and being | 第29-33页 |
| 2．4 Summary | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter Three Traditional Metaphysics of Language | 第34-50页 |
| 3．1 Ontological metaphysics of language | 第34-42页 |
| 3．1．1 Review of ontology | 第34-38页 |
| 3．1．2 The metaphysics of "be" | 第38-42页 |
| 3．1．2．1 Law of Identity | 第38-40页 |
| 3．1．2．2 "Be" as "substance Being" | 第40-42页 |
| 3．2 Epistemological metaphysics of language | 第42-48页 |
| 3．2．1 Review of epistemology | 第43-46页 |
| 3．2．2 The metaphysics of "SVO" | 第46-48页 |
| 3．2．2．1 Law of Causality | 第46页 |
| 3．2．2．2 "SVO" as "event Being" | 第46-48页 |
| 3．3 Summary | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Four Metaphysics of Language after the Linguistic Turn | 第50-69页 |
| 4．1 Nietzsche's philosophy - prelude to the Linguistic Turn | 第51-54页 |
| 4．1．1 Nietzsche's anti-metaphysics and metaphysics | 第51-53页 |
| 4．1．2 Nietzsche's view on language | 第53-54页 |
| 4．2 Review of the Linguistic Turn | 第54-60页 |
| 4．2．1 Linguistic Turn in analytic philosophy | 第56-58页 |
| 4．2．2 linguistic Turn in narrative philosophy | 第58-60页 |
| 4．3 Restoration to metaphysics | 第60-62页 |
| 4．4 Pluralist trends | 第62-67页 |
| 4．4．1 Analytical metaphysics of language | 第62-65页 |
| 4．4．2 Narrative metaphysics of language | 第65-66页 |
| 4．4．3 Integrated metaphysics of language - hermeneutics | 第66-67页 |
| 4．5 Summary | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter Five The Development of Pragmatics Based on Metaphysics of Language | 第69-78页 |
| 5．1 Logical positivism, deixis and some other pragmatic phenomena | 第69-73页 |
| 5．2 "Meaning in use" and speech acts | 第73-76页 |
| 5．3 Significance of pragmatic study for metaphysics of language | 第76-77页 |
| 5．4 Summary | 第77-78页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第78-85页 |
| 6．1 Summary of the study | 第78-80页 |
| 6．2 Revelation | 第80-85页 |
| Bibliography | 第85-90页 |
