| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第15-25页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Future as a Temporal Concept | 第15-17页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Means of Expressing Future | 第17-21页 |
| ·Comments on the Previous Studies | 第21-22页 |
| ·Scope of This Study | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundations | 第25-35页 |
| ·Central Ideas of Cognitive Linguistics | 第25-27页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy | 第27-28页 |
| ·Grammaticalization | 第28-35页 |
| Chapter Three Future and the Linguistic Representation of Future in English | 第35-51页 |
| ·Future as a Concept of Time | 第35-47页 |
| ·Experiential Basis of Time | 第35-37页 |
| ·Conceptualization of Time | 第37-41页 |
| ·Nature of Future | 第41-43页 |
| ·Classification of Future | 第43-47页 |
| ·Predictive Future and Non-predictive Future | 第43-45页 |
| ·Future Starting from the Moment of Speaking and Future Starting before the Moment of Speaking | 第45-47页 |
| ·Linguistic Representation of Future in Language | 第47-51页 |
| ·Linguistic Representation | 第47-48页 |
| ·Means of Expressing Future in English | 第48-51页 |
| Chapter Four Cognitive Explanations of the Means of Expressing Future in English | 第51-77页 |
| ·will/shall+infinitive | 第51-58页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of will/shall+infinitive | 第51-55页 |
| ·Temporal Structure of will/shall+infinitive | 第55-58页 |
| ·be going to+infinitive | 第58-65页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of be going to+infinitive | 第58-61页 |
| ·Temporal Structure of be going to+infinitive | 第61-65页 |
| ·The Simple Present | 第65-69页 |
| ·Semantic Features of the Simple Present | 第66-67页 |
| ·Temporal Structure of the Simple Present | 第67-69页 |
| ·The Present Progressive | 第69-77页 |
| ·Semantic Properties of the Present Progressive | 第70-72页 |
| ·Temporal Structure of the Present Progressive | 第72-77页 |
| Conclusion | 第77-81页 |
| Bibliography | 第81-85页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第85-87页 |
