| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-9页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第9-10页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-13页 |
| CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION | 第13-20页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第13-15页 |
| ·Objectives of the study | 第15-17页 |
| ·Research methods of the study | 第17-18页 |
| ·Structure of the thesis | 第18-20页 |
| CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW | 第20-32页 |
| ·Studies on kinship terms | 第20-27页 |
| ·Anthropological research | 第20-23页 |
| ·Linguistc rearch | 第23-24页 |
| ·Sociolinguistic research | 第24-27页 |
| ·Studies on Shiji | 第27-32页 |
| ·Studies on the original text and the author Sima Qian | 第28-30页 |
| ·Translation and introduction in different languages | 第30-32页 |
| CHAPTER III SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH ON KINSHIP TERMS | 第32-48页 |
| ·Overview of sociolinguistics | 第32-33页 |
| ·Sociolinguistic study on kinship terms | 第33-48页 |
| ·Overview of kinship terms | 第34-35页 |
| ·Cultural and social meanings of kinship terms | 第35-44页 |
| ·Kinship terms and consanguinity | 第36-38页 |
| ·Kinship terms and sex | 第38-39页 |
| ·Kinship terms and value-orientation | 第39-41页 |
| ·Kinship terms and economic pattern | 第41-44页 |
| ·Kinship terms in Shiji | 第44-48页 |
| CHAPTER IV A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE TRANSLATION OF KINSHIP TERMS IN TWO ENGLISH VERSIONS | 第48-70页 |
| ·An intrduction to the two English versions of Shiji | 第48-51页 |
| ·Selections from Records of the Historian by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang | 第49-50页 |
| ·Records of Grand Historian by Burton Watson | 第50-51页 |
| ·Terminology applied in the comparison | 第51-53页 |
| ·Comparison of the two versions | 第53-65页 |
| ·Generic terms for relatives | 第54-57页 |
| ·Terms for ancestors | 第57-58页 |
| ·Terms for parents | 第58-61页 |
| ·Terms for siblings | 第61-63页 |
| ·Terms for couple | 第63-64页 |
| ·Terms for offspring | 第64-65页 |
| ·Evaluation of the two versions in terms of kinship terms | 第65-70页 |
| ·Evaluation of translation methods | 第65-66页 |
| ·Evaluation of translaiton effect | 第66-68页 |
| ·Summary | 第68-70页 |
| CHAPTER V CONCLUSION | 第70-73页 |
| ·Findings | 第70-72页 |
| ·Limitations and prospects of further studies | 第72-73页 |
| REFERENCES | 第73-77页 |
