| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第9-12页 |
| CHAPTER 2 CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE OF VAGUE CATEGORY IDENTIFIERS | 第12-17页 |
| ·PROTOTYPE CATEGORY THEORY | 第12-14页 |
| ·THE RELATION BETWEEN ICM AND CONTEXT | 第14-15页 |
| ·VAGUE CATEGORY IDENTIFIERS AS A VAGUE CATEGORY | 第15-17页 |
| CHAPTER 3 A COMPARISON OF CHINESE AND ENGLISH VAGUE CATEGORY IDENTIFIERS | 第17-36页 |
| ·THE STRUCTURE AND APPLICATION OF VAGUE CATEGORY IDENTIFIERS IN ENGLISH | 第17-22页 |
| ·Vague Category Identifiers’Lexical Features in English | 第17-18页 |
| ·Vague Category Identifiers’Syntactic Features in English | 第18-20页 |
| ·Co-occurrence Restrictions of Vague Category Identifiers in English | 第20-22页 |
| ·THE STRUCTURE AND APPLICATION OF VAGUE CATEGORY IDENTIFIERS IN CHINESE | 第22-29页 |
| ·Vague Category Identifiers’Lexical Features in Chinese | 第22-23页 |
| ·Vague Category Identifiers’Syntactic Features in Chinese | 第23-28页 |
| ·Co-occurrence Restrictions of Vague Category Identifiers in Chinese | 第28-29页 |
| ·ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS OF CHINESE VAGUE CATEGORY IDENTIFIERS BASED ON ENGLISH-CHINESE PARALLEL CORPUS CONCORDANCE | 第29-35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35-36页 |
| CHAPTER 4 FUNCTIONS OF VAGUE CATEGORY IDENTIFIERS | 第36-45页 |
| ·THE COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS OF VAGUE CATEGORY IDENTIFIERS | 第36-40页 |
| ·Least Effort | 第36-39页 |
| ·Subject’s Vague Understanding | 第39-40页 |
| ·THE INTERPERSONAL FUNCTIONS OF VAGUE CATEGORY IDENTIFIERS | 第40-43页 |
| ·Speech Convergence and Peacekeeping | 第40-41页 |
| ·Polite Function | 第41-43页 |
| ·THE FUNCTION OF ENHANCING EXPRESSING EFFECTS OF VAGUE CATEGORY IDENTIFIERS | 第43-45页 |
| CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION | 第45-47页 |
| ·CONCLUSIONS | 第45-46页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS | 第46页 |
| ·SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE STUDY | 第46-47页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第47-50页 |
| PUBLICATIONS DURING THE POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM | 第50-51页 |
