| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Overview | 第15-29页 |
| ·The Influence of Main Linguistic Schools on Word Meaning | 第15-22页 |
| ·Structuralist and Behaviorist View on Word Meaning | 第15-17页 |
| ·The View of TG on Word Meaning | 第17-19页 |
| ·Functional Linguistic View on Word Meaning | 第19-20页 |
| ·Cognitive View on Word Meaning | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Significance of Vocabulary Acquisition | 第22-26页 |
| ·The Status of Vocabulary | 第22-23页 |
| ·Problems among Chinese EFL College Students | 第23-26页 |
| ·Comparison of Tradtional Vocabulary Teaching and Learning With Cognitive Approach | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter 2 Cognitive Theories and Their Links with Vocabulary Acquisition | 第29-44页 |
| ·Category Theories | 第29-35页 |
| ·Categories and Categorization | 第29-32页 |
| ·Prototypes | 第32-35页 |
| ·Cognitive Models and Cultural Models | 第35-39页 |
| ·Frame Theory | 第39-44页 |
| Chapter 3 Applications of Cognitive Theories to Vocabulary Acquisition | 第44-81页 |
| ·Comprehensive Memory for Vocabulary | 第44-50页 |
| ·Memory System and Cognitive Processing | 第45-48页 |
| ·A Case Study of CAUSE | 第48-50页 |
| ·Comprehensive Learning for Word Meaning | 第50-81页 |
| ·Synonyms Learning | 第51-60页 |
| ·Intra-Language Synonyms | 第51-53页 |
| ·English-Chinese Semantic Asymmetric Synonyms | 第53-56页 |
| ·Cultural-Dependent Synonyms | 第56-60页 |
| ·Polysemous Words Learning | 第60-71页 |
| ·Context-Dependent Words Learning | 第71-81页 |
| Conclusion | 第81-84页 |
| Works Cited | 第84-87页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文和取得的科研成果 | 第87页 |