| 中文摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Framework | 第11-20页 |
| ·Langacker's Figure and Ground | 第11-14页 |
| ·Origin of Figure-Ground Segregation | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Principle of Pragnanz by Gestalt Psychologists | 第12-13页 |
| ·Characterizations of Figure and Ground in Their Linguistic Usages | 第13-14页 |
| ·the realization of figure/ground segregation in narrative function | 第14页 |
| ·Fillmore's frame theory | 第14-17页 |
| ·Definition of 'frame' | 第14-15页 |
| ·Types of 'frames' | 第15-16页 |
| ·The realization of frame theory in narrative function | 第16-17页 |
| ·Event-frames and the Windowing of Attention | 第17-18页 |
| ·Event-frames | 第17-18页 |
| ·Windowing of Attention | 第18页 |
| ·Realization of Event-frames and the Windowing of Attention in Narrative Function | 第18页 |
| ·Narration and Narrative Function | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Three Narrative Function in Verb (+ Complement) (+Adjunction) | 第20-37页 |
| ·Semantics Analysis | 第20-24页 |
| ·Central meaning | 第20-21页 |
| ·Metaphorical meaning | 第21-24页 |
| ·Prominence/attention | 第24-27页 |
| ·Motion/Zero-motion | 第27-28页 |
| ·Manner (rhetorical style of narratives) | 第28-30页 |
| ·Cause (non-causative VS. causative) | 第30-37页 |
| ·Traditional and Talmy's view | 第30-32页 |
| ·Agency Suppressing on verbal syntactic level in English discourse | 第32-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Four Narrative Function in Preposition+ Complement | 第37-47页 |
| ·Current Cognitive Studies of Prepositions | 第37-38页 |
| ·Advancing a New Cognitive Approach | 第38-47页 |
| ·Role as PATH | 第38-39页 |
| ·Prepositional Relations | 第39-43页 |
| ·Non-locativeExtensions | 第43-45页 |
| ·Summary | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Five Narrative Function in Adverbial (+Adverbial) | 第47-60页 |
| ·Adverb, adverb phrase and adverbial | 第47-49页 |
| ·Origin | 第47页 |
| ·Definition | 第47-48页 |
| ·Difference and similarities | 第48-49页 |
| ·Langacker and Talmy's Different Attitude towards Adverbial | 第49-50页 |
| ·Adverbials' Different Degrees of Prominence | 第50-54页 |
| ·Different kinds of adverbials acquire different degrees of prominence | 第50-51页 |
| ·Adverbials of same kind acquire different degrees of prominence | 第51-53页 |
| ·The sequence of adverbials in syntactic structure | 第53-54页 |
| ·Adverbials Act As Path-components in Event-frame Approach | 第54-58页 |
| ·Path-components in event-frame approach | 第54-56页 |
| ·Analysis of adverbials in concrete sentences | 第56-58页 |
| ·Summary | 第58-60页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusions and Implications | 第60-63页 |
| ·Conclusions Drawn from the Research | 第60-61页 |
| ·Implications on Teaching | 第61-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-66页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第66页 |
