| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第7-13页 |
| Chapter one Introduction | 第13-19页 |
| ·Rationale of the Study | 第13-15页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Methodology | 第16-18页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第19-35页 |
| ·Introduction | 第19页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Polysemy | 第19-29页 |
| ·Polysemy in Linguistics | 第20-25页 |
| ·Traditional Approaches to Polysemy | 第20-23页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to Polysemy | 第23-25页 |
| ·Polysemy in Lexicography | 第25-29页 |
| ·Sense Discrimination and Description | 第26-28页 |
| ·Sense Ordering of Polysemes | 第28页 |
| ·Definitional Practice of Polysemes | 第28-29页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Contronymy | 第29-34页 |
| ·Contronymy in Linguistics | 第29-33页 |
| ·Semantic Approach to Contronymy | 第29-32页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to Contronymy | 第32-33页 |
| ·Pragmatic Approach to Contronymy | 第33页 |
| ·Contronymy in Lexicography | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Basis | 第35-48页 |
| ·Introduction | 第35页 |
| ·The Background of Usage-Based Theory | 第35-37页 |
| ·The Nature of Language: Language Is a Complex Adaptive System | 第37-40页 |
| ·Language and Language in Use | 第40-43页 |
| ·Frequency and Language | 第40-42页 |
| ·Language Events and Category Formation | 第42-43页 |
| ·Language Change in Usage-Based Theory | 第43-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第48-71页 |
| ·Overall Description of Statistical Results | 第48-50页 |
| ·Overall Description of the Data from OALD7 | 第48-49页 |
| ·Overall Description of Contrastive Data from “Big five” | 第49-50页 |
| ·The Results and Discussion of Three Major Categories | 第50-69页 |
| ·Lexemes with Two Opposite Meanings | 第50-55页 |
| ·Overall Description of the Lexemes with Two Opposite Meanings | 第50-52页 |
| ·Discussion of lexemes with two opposite meanings | 第52-55页 |
| ·Lexemes not Collected in Dictionaries | 第55-62页 |
| ·Overall Description of Lexemes not Collected | 第55页 |
| ·Discussion and Case studies | 第55-62页 |
| ·Lexemes without Opposite Meanings | 第62-69页 |
| ·Overall Description of Lexemes without Opposite Meanings | 第62页 |
| ·Discussion and Case studies | 第62-69页 |
| ·Summary | 第69-71页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第71-74页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第71-72页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第72-73页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Study | 第73-74页 |
| References | 第74-83页 |
| Appendices | 第83-103页 |
| Appendix 1 Data from OALD7 | 第83-98页 |
| Appendix 2 Lexemes without Opposite Meanings in Four Dictionaries | 第98-103页 |
