| Declaration | 第1-4页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| List of Abbreviation | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·The Delimitation of the Study in this Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Main Purpose of the Innovation Signposts | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Aim of the Present Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two The Multiple Meaning Issues on the Lexical Items | 第16-25页 |
| ·Homonymy | 第16-17页 |
| ·Polysemy | 第17-20页 |
| ·The Diachronic Polysemy vs.the Synchronic Polysemy | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Motivated Sense Extending | 第18-20页 |
| ·Shifts in Application and Sense Modulation | 第20-21页 |
| ·Sense Modulation vs.Polysemy | 第21页 |
| ·The Polysemy Continuum | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Issue on Sub-senses | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Three The Current Situation of the Sense Indexes in the English Learner's Dictionary | 第25-34页 |
| ·The Review of the Traditional Sense Arrangement in the Dictionaries | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Sense Indexes in the English Learner's Dictionaries | 第26-30页 |
| ·The Shortcut in OALD6 | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Signpost in LDOCEs | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Guideword in CALD | 第29页 |
| ·The Menu in both MADEL and COBUILD | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Comparison among Shortcuts, Signposts and Guidewords | 第30-32页 |
| ·The Signpost-Style and the Menu-Style Sense Index | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Four The Signposts—the Innovative Setting in the Highly Polysemous Entries | 第34-53页 |
| ·The User's Reference Need | 第34-36页 |
| ·The Sense Accessibility in the Long Entry | 第36页 |
| ·The Signification of Signposts | 第36-42页 |
| ·The Goal of the Innovative Signposts | 第37页 |
| ·The Information Delivered by Signposts | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Empirical Tests on the Effectiveness of Signposts | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Basic Criteria of the Qualified Signposts | 第42-45页 |
| ·The Issue cn Simplicity | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Issue on Preciseness | 第43页 |
| ·The Issue on Discriminativeness | 第43-44页 |
| ·The Issue on Saliency | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Deficiencies in the Current Signposts | 第45-53页 |
| ·The Problems Violating the Criterion Simplicity | 第46页 |
| ·The Problems Violating the Criterion Preciseness | 第46-48页 |
| ·The Problems Violating the Criterion Discriminativeness | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Problems Violating the Criterion Salience | 第49-50页 |
| ·The Other Problems in the Signpost Setting | 第50-51页 |
| ·The Summary of the Problems in the Current Signposts | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Five The Solutions for the Problems in Signposts | 第53-77页 |
| ·The Answer to Question A in the Current Signposts | 第53-54页 |
| ·The Study on the Answer to Question B in the Current Signposts | 第54-64页 |
| ·The Prototype Theory Applicable to Question B | 第54-60页 |
| ·The Prototype and the Sub-prototype in Sense Extension | 第56-59页 |
| ·The Prototype in the Homonym Issue | 第59-60页 |
| ·The Application of the Inner Semantic Structure in Race | 第60-62页 |
| ·The Solution of Question B | 第62-63页 |
| ·The Summary for the Issue of Question B | 第63-64页 |
| ·The Study on the Answer to Question C in the Current Signposts | 第64-71页 |
| ·The General Meaning Delivered by the Signposts | 第64-65页 |
| ·The Contextual Information Delivered by the Signposts | 第65-70页 |
| ·The Disability of the General Meaning | 第65-66页 |
| ·The Context in the Signposts vs.the Context in Pragmatics | 第66页 |
| ·The Conventional Context in Signposts and the Frame Support | 第66-68页 |
| ·The Function of the Contextual Information in the Signpost | 第68-69页 |
| ·The Distribution of the Contextual Information in the Signpost | 第69-70页 |
| ·The Particular Function Delivered by the Signposts | 第70-71页 |
| ·The Issue on the Layout of the Different Signposts | 第71页 |
| ·The Study on the Answer to Question D in the Current Signposts | 第71-77页 |
| ·The Conventional Treatment of Sense Grouping in the Polysemous Entry | 第72-73页 |
| ·The Solution Proposed for Question D | 第73-75页 |
| ·The Empirical Test on the Proposed Treatment of the Part-of-Speech Information | 第75-77页 |
| Chapter Six The Conclusion | 第77-81页 |
| ·The General Principles Proposed for the Signpost Distribution and Setting | 第77页 |
| ·The Tentative Model of the Signposts in the Long Entry | 第77-79页 |
| ·The Limitation of the Thesis | 第79-81页 |
| Bibliography | 第81-86页 |
| The Dictionaries Used | 第86-87页 |
| AppendixⅠ | 第87-90页 |
| AppendixⅡ | 第90-106页 |
| AppendixⅢ | 第106页 |
