| Synopsis | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abbreviations Used in This Thesis | 第7-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-20页 |
| ·What Is Metalanguage? | 第13-17页 |
| ·Metalanguage in the Field of Logic | 第13-14页 |
| ·Metalanguage in the Field of Linguistics | 第14-15页 |
| ·Metalanguage in the Field of Lexicography | 第15-17页 |
| ·Metalanguage in the Field of Natural Language Processing(NLP) | 第17页 |
| ·Research Content,Objective,and Methodology | 第17-20页 |
| Chapter Two Metalanguage in the English Learner's Dictionary | 第20-39页 |
| ·The Nature of Definition | 第20页 |
| ·The English Learner's Dictionary | 第20-22页 |
| ·A Survey of the DV Lists in the "Big Four" | 第22-28页 |
| ·LDOCE | 第22-25页 |
| ·OALD | 第25-26页 |
| ·CIDE | 第26-27页 |
| ·COBUILD | 第27-28页 |
| ·A Survey of the DV Lists on Semantic Distribution | 第28-35页 |
| ·Words in the Range of LLOCE | 第28-32页 |
| ·Words out of the Range of LLOCE | 第32-35页 |
| ·A Survey of the DV Lists on Word Frequency | 第35-39页 |
| Chapter Three An Analysis of Metalanguage:Based on LDOCE Series | 第39-54页 |
| ·A Comparison between DV_(LDOCE1) and DV_(LDOCE4) | 第39-41页 |
| ·Means of Defining and Influences on Metalanguage | 第41-45页 |
| ·Paraphrase | 第41-43页 |
| ·True definition | 第43-44页 |
| ·Functional definition | 第44-45页 |
| ·Defining Styles and Influences on Metalanguage | 第45-47页 |
| ·Phrasal defining | 第45-46页 |
| ·Sentence defining | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Insight into the Orientation of ELD | 第47-54页 |
| ·Basic Cognitive Experiences and Metalanguage | 第47-50页 |
| ·Alleviation of Circularities | 第50-54页 |
| Chapter Four The Derivation of Metalexicon:Based on LDOCE4 | 第54-66页 |
| ·Prescriptive and Descriptive Metalexicon | 第54页 |
| ·Anna Wierzbicka's Natural Semantic Metalanguage | 第54-56页 |
| ·The Derivation of Metalexicon in the Field of NLP | 第56-57页 |
| ·The Derivation of Metalexicon:Based on LDOCE4 | 第57-66页 |
| ·Semantic Primitive Extractor | 第57-60页 |
| ·An Analysis of the Metalexicon Derived from LDOCE4 | 第60-63页 |
| ·The Comparisons with Wierzbicka's Metalexicon and DV_(LDOCE4) | 第63-65页 |
| ·The Comparison with Chinese Metalexicon | 第65-66页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第66-70页 |
| ·The Features of Metalexieon | 第66-67页 |
| ·Metalexicon from Real and Natural Language | 第66页 |
| ·Metalexicon as Explanatory Words | 第66页 |
| ·Metalexicon as Semantic Composition | 第66-67页 |
| ·The Utility of Metalexicon in the ELD | 第67-68页 |
| ·Refinement of the Definition in the ELD | 第67页 |
| ·Rebuilding of the Macrostructure in a Cognitive ELD | 第67-68页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第68-69页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Study | 第69-70页 |
| Appendixes | 第70-79页 |
| References | 第79-83页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第83页 |
