| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-22页 |
| ·Tautology as a Kind of Linguistic Phenomenon | 第12-16页 |
| ·Tautology in Rhetoric and Logic | 第13-14页 |
| ·Tautology in Semantics and Pragmatics | 第14-15页 |
| ·Nominal Tautology in the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Background to the Study:A Survey of Cognitive Linguistics | 第16-18页 |
| ·Working Hypotheses of Cognitive Linguistics | 第16-17页 |
| ·Three Main Approaches in Cognitive Linguistics | 第17-18页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第18-19页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第19-20页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第22-33页 |
| ·Domestic Scholars' Study on Tautology | 第22-26页 |
| ·Traditional Grammatical and Rhetorical View on Tautology | 第22-25页 |
| ·Modern Cognitive-Pragmatic View on Tautology | 第25-26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26页 |
| ·Foreign Scholars' Views on Tautology | 第26-32页 |
| ·Radical Pragmatic Analysis | 第27-28页 |
| ·Radical Semantic Analysis | 第28-29页 |
| ·A Compromising Pragmatic Account | 第29-30页 |
| ·A New Gricean Account | 第30-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-32页 |
| ·A Proposed Model of Analysis | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Three Syntactic and Semantic Properties of Nominal Tautology | 第33-50页 |
| ·Syntactic Properties of Nominal Tautology | 第33-41页 |
| ·Syntactic Features of the Linking-Verb "BE" | 第33-35页 |
| ·Syntactic Features of Two NPs | 第35-39页 |
| ·Syntactic Features of the Whole Structure | 第39-41页 |
| ·Semantic Properties of Nominal Tautology | 第41-49页 |
| ·Semantic Features of Two NPs | 第41-44页 |
| ·Semantic Features of the Whole Structure | 第44-49页 |
| ·Summary | 第49-50页 |
| Chapter Four Cognitive Interpretations of Nominal Tautology | 第50-76页 |
| ·Prototype Theory and Nominal Tautology | 第50-61页 |
| ·An Introduction to Prototype Theory | 第50-52页 |
| ·Prototype Model of Category Structure | 第52-55页 |
| ·A Prototype Interpretation on Nominal Tautology | 第55-58页 |
| ·Case Studies | 第58-61页 |
| ·Nominal Tautology and Mental Space Theory | 第61-74页 |
| ·An Introduction to Mental Space Theory | 第61-63页 |
| ·Mappings Between Mental Spaces | 第63-64页 |
| ·A Mental Space Interpretation on Nominal Tautology | 第64-69页 |
| ·Case Studies | 第69-74页 |
| ·Summary | 第74-76页 |
| Chapter Five Nominal Tautology and Discourse Markers | 第76-88页 |
| ·An Introduction to Discourse Markers | 第76-79页 |
| ·Definition of Discourse Markers | 第76-77页 |
| ·Features of Discourse Markers | 第77-78页 |
| ·Functions of Discourse Markers | 第78-79页 |
| ·Discourse Markers' Constraints on the Implicature of Nominal Tautology | 第79-82页 |
| ·Chinese Discourse Markers and Implicature Inference of Nominal Tautology | 第82-85页 |
| ·English Discourse Markers and Implicature Inference of Nominal Tautology | 第85-86页 |
| ·Summary | 第86-88页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第88-92页 |
| ·Some Findings of the Thesis | 第88-89页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Study | 第89-92页 |
| Bibliography | 第92-95页 |
