| Descriptive Abstract in Chinese | 第4-5页 |
| English Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| Chapter One An Overview of Previous Studies of Readability | 第16-25页 |
| 1.1 A Formulaic Approach to Readability | 第16-18页 |
| 1.2 A Multilevel Discourse Approach to Readability | 第18-20页 |
| 1.3 A Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach to Readability | 第20-25页 |
| 1.3.1 The Perspective of Language Complexity | 第21-22页 |
| 1.3.2 The Perspective of Grammatical Metaphor | 第22-23页 |
| 1.3.3 The Perspective of Cohesion | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Framework | 第25-39页 |
| 2.1 Halliday's Theory of Grammatical Metaphor | 第25-35页 |
| 2.1.1 Definition of Grammatical Metaphor | 第26-27页 |
| 2.1.2 Classification of Grammatical Metaphor | 第27-34页 |
| 2.1.3 Metaphorical Form and Congruent Form | 第34-35页 |
| 2.2 Halliday's Theory of Ontogenesis | 第35-39页 |
| 2.2.1 The Phase of Grammatical Generalization | 第36-37页 |
| 2.2.2 The Phase of Grammatical Abstractness | 第37页 |
| 2.2.3 The Phase of Grammatical Metaphor | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Three Readability Involving Grammatical Metaphor inOriginal and Simplified Versions of Gulliver's Travels | 第39-62页 |
| 3.1 The Distribution of Grammatical Metaphor | 第39-45页 |
| 3.1.1 General Distribution of Grammatical Metaphor | 第40-41页 |
| 3.1.2 Distribution of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor | 第41-43页 |
| 3.1.3 Distribution of Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor | 第43-45页 |
| 3.2 Readability Involving Ideational Grammatical Metaphor | 第45-53页 |
| 3.2.1 Readability Involving One Ideational Grammatical Metaphor | 第45-48页 |
| 3.2.2 Readability Involving Two Ideational Grammatical Metaphors | 第48-51页 |
| 3.2.3 Readability Involving Three Ideational Grammatical Metaphors | 第51-53页 |
| 3.3 Readability Involving Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor | 第53-62页 |
| 3.3.1 Readability Involving Metaphor of Modality | 第54-58页 |
| 3.3.2 Readability Involving Metaphor of Mood | 第58-62页 |
| Chapter Four The Influence of Grammatical Metaphor onReadability | 第62-75页 |
| 4.1 Influence of Reducing Frequency of Grammatical Metaphor | 第62-64页 |
| 4.2 Influence of Unpacking Ideational Grammatical Metaphor | 第64-69页 |
| 4.3 Influence of Rewriting Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor | 第69-75页 |
| 4.3.1 Reserving Metaphor of Modality | 第70-72页 |
| 4.3.2 Adding Metaphor of Mood | 第72-75页 |
| Conclusion | 第75-79页 |
| Works Cited | 第79-83页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第83-84页 |
| Informative Abstract in Chinese | 第84-87页 |
| Résumé and Publications since Entering the Program | 第87页 |
