| Chapter 1: Introduction | 第1-10页 |
| Chapter 2: The Theory of Prototypes and Basic-level Categories | 第10-15页 |
| ·Aristotle's Classical Approach to Categories and Its Inadequacies | 第10-11页 |
| ·Family Resemblance | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Prototypical Category Theory | 第12-14页 |
| ·Levels of Categorization | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter 3: The Prototypical Category Theory on Semantic Analysis | 第15-25页 |
| ·Linguistic Knowledge and General Knowledge | 第15-16页 |
| ·Cognitive Domain for the Characterization of Meanings | 第16-18页 |
| ·Domain and Schema | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Characterization of Meanings | 第18页 |
| ·Poly-centric Categories and Meaning Chain | 第18-25页 |
| ·Prototypes Related in a Family Resemblance Structure | 第19-22页 |
| ·Meaning Chains | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter 4: Means to Semantic Extension | 第25-39页 |
| ·Semantic Motivation | 第25-34页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第25-31页 |
| ·The Features of Metaphor | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Internal Structure of Metaphor | 第28-31页 |
| ·Metonymy | 第31-34页 |
| ·The Features of Metonymy | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Internal Structure of Metonymy | 第34页 |
| ·Radiation and Concatenation | 第34-39页 |
| Chapter 5: Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics | 第39-61页 |
| ·Polysemy | 第39-42页 |
| ·The Definition of Polysemy | 第39-41页 |
| ·The Distinction between Polysemy and Homonymy | 第41-42页 |
| ·Polysemy within the Scope of Structuralism in Traditional Approach and a Tentative Evaluation | 第42-45页 |
| ·Feature Analysis | 第42-44页 |
| ·Arbitrariness and Motivation | 第44-45页 |
| ·Polysemy in the Prototypical Theory | 第45-61页 |
| ·Philosophical Foundation—Experientialism | 第45-47页 |
| ·Polysemous Phenomena Reflected on Lexical Categories | 第47-53页 |
| ·The Polysemy of "Over" | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Polysemy of "Up" and "Down" | 第49-53页 |
| ·Polysemous Phenomena Reflected on Non-lexical Categories | 第53-61页 |
| ·The Polysemy of Past Tense | 第53-55页 |
| ·The Polysemy of Yes-no Interrogative | 第55-56页 |
| ·The Polysemy of Transitive Construction | 第56-61页 |
| Chapter 6: Conclusion | 第61-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-66页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第66页 |
