| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in English | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第7-11页 |
| Abbreviations | 第11-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Pragmatic Failure and Pragmatic information | 第15-25页 |
| ·Pragmatic failure | 第15-17页 |
| ·A brief introduction | 第15-16页 |
| ·Pragmalinguistic failure | 第16-17页 |
| ·Sociopragmatic failure | 第17页 |
| ·Pragmatic information | 第17-20页 |
| ·A brief introduction | 第17-18页 |
| ·Researches on pragmatic information and lexicography | 第18-19页 |
| ·LDOCE’s list of six questions | 第19-20页 |
| ·Pragmatic information in English-Chinese learner’s dictionaries | 第20-24页 |
| ·What is a learner’s dictionary | 第20-22页 |
| ·Why are learner’s dictionaries important in foreign language learning | 第22页 |
| ·What is a learner’s dictionary expected to provide | 第22-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter 2 Pragmatic Information Provided in Monolingual English Learner’s Dictionaries | 第25-44页 |
| ·LDOCE4 (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 4th edition) | 第25-33页 |
| ·Macrostructure | 第25-27页 |
| ·Front matter | 第25-26页 |
| ·Interleaf | 第26-27页 |
| ·Appendix | 第27页 |
| ·Microstructure | 第27-33页 |
| ·Labels | 第27-28页 |
| ·Usage notes | 第28-29页 |
| ·Examples | 第29-30页 |
| ·Frequency | 第30-31页 |
| ·Definition | 第31页 |
| ·Cross-reference | 第31-32页 |
| ·Pictorial illustrations | 第32-33页 |
| ·ALD6 (Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 6th edition) | 第33-34页 |
| ·CALD2 (Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, second edition) | 第34-37页 |
| ·Frequency information labels | 第35页 |
| ·Pragmatic information in definitions | 第35-36页 |
| ·Usage notes | 第36-37页 |
| ·Labels | 第37页 |
| ·CCALD (Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary) | 第37-40页 |
| ·Macrostructure | 第37-38页 |
| ·Microstructure | 第38-40页 |
| ·Full-sentence definition | 第38-39页 |
| ·Extra columns | 第39-40页 |
| ·MEDAL (Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners of American English) | 第40-42页 |
| ·Macrostructure | 第40-41页 |
| ·Microstructure | 第41-42页 |
| ·Usage notes | 第41-42页 |
| ·Notes to show the origin of headwords | 第42页 |
| ·Summary | 第42-44页 |
| Chapter 3 Pragmatic Information Provided in ECLDs | 第44-54页 |
| ·Means of treating pragmatic information in current ECLDs | 第44-50页 |
| ·NECD (A New English-Chinese Dictionary, Century Edition) | 第45-48页 |
| ·Labels | 第45-46页 |
| ·Chinese equivalents | 第46-47页 |
| ·Examples | 第47页 |
| ·Cross-reference | 第47-48页 |
| ·Origins | 第48页 |
| ·NECALD (A New English-Chinese Advanced Learner’s Dictionary) | 第48-49页 |
| ·MFECD (The New Century Multi-functional English-Chinese Dictionary) | 第49-50页 |
| ·Shortcomings in the treatment of pragmatic information in current ECLDs | 第50-53页 |
| ·Not enough means taken to provide pragmatic information | 第51页 |
| ·Means to provide pragmatic information not corresponding with each other | 第51-52页 |
| ·Not enough cultural information supplied | 第52-53页 |
| ·Inappropriate or insufficient Chinese equivalents | 第53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-54页 |
| Chapter 4 Suggestions for Incorporating Pragmatic Information into ECLDs | 第54-64页 |
| ·Constructing and exploiting of the corpus | 第54-57页 |
| ·The corpus and monolingual learner’s dictionaries | 第54-55页 |
| ·Parallel corpora and their use in ECLD compilation | 第55-56页 |
| ·Learner corpora and bilingual learner’s dictionaries | 第56-57页 |
| ·What is a learner corpus | 第56页 |
| ·The use of a learner corpus in ECLD compilation | 第56-57页 |
| ·Making use of ECLDs’macrostructure | 第57-58页 |
| ·Providing word frequency information | 第58页 |
| ·Providing more and better usage notes | 第58-60页 |
| ·Making “bold”use of examples | 第60-61页 |
| ·Making use of pictorial illustrations | 第61-62页 |
| ·Producing more colourful ECLDs | 第62页 |
| ·Proving CD-ROM versions and paperback versions | 第62-63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-66页 |
| Bibliography | 第66-69页 |
