| Acknowledgement | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract(English) | 第7-9页 |
| Abstract(Chinese) | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·Introducing the Issue | 第11-12页 |
| ·Origin and Status quo of researches in question | 第12-13页 |
| ·Approaches adopted and preview of the major contents | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Two Definition and Categorization | 第14-32页 |
| ·The concept of focus defined in different perspectives | 第14-23页 |
| ·Defining "focus" from the perspective of "new information and old information" | 第15-17页 |
| ·Presupposition-based way of analyzing focus | 第17-22页 |
| ·Defining "focus" from the perspective of syntax structure | 第22-23页 |
| ·Major Categories of focuses | 第23-32页 |
| ·Informational focus and contrastive focus | 第24-28页 |
| ·Marked Focus and Unmarked Focus | 第28-29页 |
| ·Semantic Focus | 第29-32页 |
| ·Psychological Focus | 第32页 |
| Chapter Three Three-Level Theory in Grammar Study | 第32-41页 |
| ·Historical review of the three-level theory | 第32-34页 |
| ·The three levels in grammar study | 第34-37页 |
| ·The main content each level studies | 第37-39页 |
| ·The relationship among the three levels | 第39-40页 |
| ·Relation among the three levels and its enlightenment | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Four Focalizing Devices/Focus-Indicating Devices | 第41-47页 |
| ·Phonetic Devices | 第41-46页 |
| ·The principle of stressing content words rather than function words | 第41-42页 |
| ·The principle of stressing sentence-end | 第42-43页 |
| ·The principle of giving stress preference to internal argument | 第43-44页 |
| ·The principle of giving stress preference to new information | 第44-45页 |
| ·Priority sequence of the four major principles | 第45-46页 |
| ·Lexical Devices | 第46页 |
| ·Syntactic Devices | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter Five Application of Focalizing Devices in Translation between Chinese and English | 第47-62页 |
| ·contrastive analysis on the use of different categories of focus-indicating devices in both languages | 第48-49页 |
| ·Requirement of equivalence in translation necessitates the translation of focus | 第49-51页 |
| ·Strategies employed in translation of focus between Chinese and English | 第51-59页 |
| ·Showing focus with special marker | 第51-52页 |
| ·Indicating focus with emphasizing words | 第52-53页 |
| ·Special sentence pattern that make focus prominent | 第53-54页 |
| ·Presenting focus with unconventional word order | 第54-59页 |
| ·Analysis of focalizing structures in some natural language materials | 第59-62页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第62-65页 |
| ·Summary of foregoing procedures and major findings | 第62-63页 |
| ·Limitations and implications of this research | 第63-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-68页 |
