| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·Objectives and Organization of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| ·Necessity of further research | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter 1 Literal Language and Figurative Language | 第17-24页 |
| ·Literal language | 第17-19页 |
| ·Figurative language | 第19-21页 |
| ·Mental mechanism of the two languages | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter 2 A General View of Oxymoron | 第24-34页 |
| ·Definitions of oxymoron | 第24-25页 |
| ·Conceptual contradiction: the essence of oxymoron | 第25-27页 |
| ·The distinctions between oxymoron and paradox | 第27-30页 |
| ·A survey of oxymoron research | 第30-34页 |
| Chapter 3 Pragmatic and Cognitive Functions of Oxymoron | 第34-42页 |
| ·Pragmatic functions of oxymoron | 第34-39页 |
| ·Oxymoron as a figure of speech | 第34-36页 |
| ·Oxymoron as an interpersonal rhetoric device | 第36-39页 |
| ·Cognitive function of Oxymoron | 第39-42页 |
| Chapter 4 Cognitive Accounts of Oxymoron | 第42-70页 |
| ·Cognitive factors influencing the understanding of oxymoron | 第42-47页 |
| ·Human experience | 第43-44页 |
| ·Cultural preference | 第44-46页 |
| ·Communicative intention | 第46-47页 |
| ·Mental spaces theory and oxymoron | 第47-55页 |
| ·Mental space theory | 第47-51页 |
| ·An analysis of oxymoron from the aspect of mental space | 第51-55页 |
| ·Frame-shifting Theory and Oxymoron | 第55-64页 |
| ·Frame-shifting theory | 第55-59页 |
| ·An analysis of oxymoron from the aspect of frame-shifting | 第59-64页 |
| ·A new model of oxymoron interpretation by blending mental space theory and frame-shifting theory | 第64-70页 |
| ·Evaluation of mental space theory | 第64-65页 |
| ·Evaluation of frame-shifting theory | 第65-66页 |
| ·Implicit space-shifting model | 第66-70页 |
| Conclusion | 第70-74页 |
| Bibliography | 第74-78页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第78-79页 |
| Appendix | 第79-80页 |
| 详细摘要 | 第80-95页 |
