| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| Chapter One Figure/Ground Orders in Language Structures | 第14-29页 |
| ·Figure and Ground in Perception | 第14-16页 |
| ·Figure and Ground in Language | 第16-29页 |
| ·Definition and Characteristics | 第16-19页 |
| ·Figure/Ground in Talmy | 第16-19页 |
| ·Figure/Ground in Langacker | 第19页 |
| ·Figure/Ground and Language Orders | 第19-29页 |
| ·Discussion from Talmy and Langacker | 第19-20页 |
| ·Discussion from Liu and Zhao | 第20-22页 |
| ·Comparison and Contrast of Previous Arguments | 第22-29页 |
| Chapter Two Re-examination of Figure/Ground Order in Language | 第29-45页 |
| ·Figure/Ground Orders in English --- An Empirical Study | 第29-37页 |
| ·Research Objectives | 第30页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第30-31页 |
| ·Sentence Sampling | 第30页 |
| ·Data Source | 第30-31页 |
| ·Research Method | 第31页 |
| ·Research Results | 第31-33页 |
| ·Result Analysis | 第33-37页 |
| ·Figure/Ground Orders in Chinese | 第37-39页 |
| ·Comparison of Figure/Ground Orders between English and Chinese | 第39-45页 |
| ·Two Figure/Ground Orders | 第39-43页 |
| ·Categorization of Figure/Ground Orders | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter Three Universal Figure/Ground Orders | 第45-57页 |
| ·Categorization of Figure/Ground Orders | 第45-52页 |
| ·Ground-before-Figure Order | 第45-48页 |
| ·Figure-before-Ground Order | 第48-52页 |
| ·Relation between Figure/Ground Order and Known-to-unkonwn Order | 第52-54页 |
| ·Figure/Ground Order with Figure/Ground Property | 第54-57页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第57-60页 |
| Bibliography | 第60-61页 |
