| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| ·Significance and Data-to-Analyze of the Thesis | 第9-11页 |
| ·Research Goals and Methodology | 第11-12页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-36页 |
| ·A Key Notion: Style | 第14-17页 |
| ·Polysemous Nature of Style | 第14-16页 |
| ·Style: a Working Definition | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Historical Development of the Theory of Foregrounding | 第17-31页 |
| ·Historical Origin of the Foregrounding Theory | 第18页 |
| ·Russian Formalism and "Defamiliarization" | 第18-19页 |
| ·Prague School Strucrualists' Foregrounding Theory | 第19-22页 |
| ·Leech's Synthesis of the Foregrounding Theory | 第22-27页 |
| ·Halliday's Conception of the Foregrounding Theory | 第27-28页 |
| ·Van Peer's Pragmatic View towards Foregrounding | 第28-30页 |
| ·Foregrounding Theory and Its Application in China | 第30-31页 |
| ·An Integrative Mode for Foregrounding | 第31-36页 |
| Chapter Three Fortress Besieged: the Text for Analysis | 第36-39页 |
| ·Theme and Content of Fortress Besieged | 第36-37页 |
| ·Previous Academic Studies of Fortress Besieged | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Four Direction of Foregrounding | 第39-47页 |
| ·Chien Chung-shu's Foregrounding Consciousness | 第39-43页 |
| ·Chien's Understanding of Metaphorical Use of Language | 第43-47页 |
| Chapter Five Textual Realization of Foregrounding | 第47-70页 |
| ·Foregrounding of Metaphorical Use of Language | 第47-64页 |
| ·Frequent Occurrence of Metaphorical Expressions in Fortress Besieged | 第48-51页 |
| ·A Tentative Study to Test the Frequency | 第48-50页 |
| ·A Selected Relative Norm for Comparison | 第50-51页 |
| ·Divergence between the Source and the Target Domains | 第51-56页 |
| ·Concrete Tenor & Concrete Vehicle | 第52-53页 |
| ·Abstract Tenor & Concrete Vehicle | 第53-54页 |
| ·Abstract Tenor & Abstract Vehicle | 第54-55页 |
| ·Concrete Tenor & Abstract Vehicle | 第55-56页 |
| ·Density of Metaphorical Expressions | 第56-58页 |
| ·Preference for Similes | 第58-64页 |
| ·Superiority of Metaphor to Simile in Traditional Rhetoric | 第59页 |
| ·Preference for Similes in Fortress Besieged: a Foregrounding Feature | 第59-61页 |
| ·Some Tentative Explanations for this Preference | 第61-64页 |
| ·Foregrounding of Metaphorical Use of Language: More than Embellishment | 第64页 |
| ·Other Foregrounding Features of Language in the Novel | 第64-69页 |
| ·Dialectal Foregrounding | 第65-66页 |
| ·Foregrounding of Register and Historical Period | 第66-68页 |
| ·Lexical Foregrounding | 第68-69页 |
| ·Summary | 第69-70页 |
| Chapter Six Foregrounding from the Reader's Point of View | 第70-75页 |
| ·Reader's Interpretation of Foregrounding in Fortress Besieged | 第70-73页 |
| ·The Integrative Mode Revisited | 第73-75页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第75-78页 |
| Bibliography | 第78-80页 |
