| 英文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-17页 |
| 1．1 Significance of the Linguistic Studies on Taboo | 第8-11页 |
| 1．2 Purpose and Focus of the Study | 第11-12页 |
| 1．3 Research Methods and Related Corpora | 第12-16页 |
| 1．3．1 Research Methods Adopted in this Paper | 第12页 |
| 1．3．2 The Language Data and Linguistic Corpora | 第12-16页 |
| 1．4 Layout of The Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Background | 第17-26页 |
| 2．1 Analysis of Word-Formation | 第17-19页 |
| 2．1．1 Compounding | 第17-18页 |
| 2．1．2 Derivation or Affixation | 第18页 |
| 2．1．3 Conversion | 第18-19页 |
| 2．2 Main Types of Word Meaning | 第19-21页 |
| 2．2．1 Denotative Meaning | 第19-20页 |
| 2．2．2 Connotative Meaning | 第20页 |
| 2．2．3 Social Meaning | 第20页 |
| 2．2．4 Affective Meaning | 第20-21页 |
| 2．3 Contextulism and Register | 第21-23页 |
| 2．4 Culture and Language | 第23-26页 |
| Chapter Three Overview of Linguistic Taboo | 第26-47页 |
| 3．1 General Historical Views on Linguistic Taboo | 第26-28页 |
| 3．2 The Origin of Linguistic Taboo | 第28-35页 |
| 3．2．1 Religious and superstitious beliefs | 第29-31页 |
| 3．2．2 Social factors | 第31-34页 |
| 3．2．3 Personal feelings | 第34页 |
| 3．2．4 Communication needs | 第34页 |
| 3．2．5 Homophonic factor | 第34-35页 |
| 3．2．6 Taboo-euphemism-taboo circle | 第35页 |
| 3．3 Historical Evolution of Linguistic Taboo | 第35-37页 |
| 3．4 The Taboo Definition and Other Ambiguous Terms | 第37-41页 |
| 3．4．1 Taboo and linguistic taboo | 第37-38页 |
| 3．4．2 Swearing and cursing words | 第38-39页 |
| 3．4．3 Obscene words | 第39页 |
| 3．4．4 Dirty words | 第39-40页 |
| 3．4．5 Four-letter words | 第40页 |
| 3．4．6 Semi-taboo | 第40页 |
| 3．4．7 Some related concepts | 第40-41页 |
| 3．5 Classification of Taboo Words | 第41-47页 |
| 3．5．1 Words concerning God, devil and other sacred things | 第41-42页 |
| 3．5．2 Words concerning sex | 第42-43页 |
| 3．5．3 Words concerning bodily excretions | 第43-44页 |
| 3．5．4 Words concerning the physical disadvantages | 第44-45页 |
| 3．5．5 Words concerning disease, death | 第45页 |
| 3．5．6 Words that denote society problems | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Four Quantitative Analysis and Discussion of Taboo Words | 第47-88页 |
| 4．1 General Distribution of Taboo Words in the Corpora | 第47-57页 |
| 4．2 Further Discussion on The Distribution and Textual Analysis of Taboo Words in CEMC, CIEC, CETVC and CEPC | 第57-76页 |
| 4．2．1 Distribution of Different Kinds of Taboo Words | 第57-60页 |
| 4．2．2 Distribution and Analysis of High Frequency Sex Words | 第60-70页 |
| 4．2．3 Distribution and Analysis of Society Rooted Taboo Words | 第70-71页 |
| 4．2．4 Distribution and Analysis of Profanity | 第71-74页 |
| 4．2．5 Distribution and Analysis of Excremental Words | 第74-75页 |
| 4．2．6 Distribution and Analysis of Taboo Words Denoting Physical Disadvantage | 第75页 |
| 4．2．7 Distribution and Analysis of Words on Death, Disease etc | 第75-76页 |
| 4．3 Characteristics of Taboo Words Found from the Research | 第76-88页 |
| Chapter Five Further Discussion of Taboo Words From Sociolinguistic Perspective | 第88-109页 |
| 5．1 Functions of Linguistic Taboo | 第88-89页 |
| 5．2 Ageism in linguistic taboo | 第89-98页 |
| 5．2．1 Taboo words usage by children | 第89-95页 |
| 5．2．2 Taboo words usage at adolescent Stage | 第95-97页 |
| 5．2．3 Taboo words usage during adulthood | 第97页 |
| 5．2．4 Taboo words usage at the old age | 第97-98页 |
| 5．3 Sexuality in Linguistic Taboo | 第98-104页 |
| 5．3．1 Sex-Related Terms in Language | 第98-101页 |
| 5．3．2 Sex Differences in Language Use | 第101-104页 |
| 5．4 Class Factor in Linguistic Taboo | 第104-106页 |
| 5．5 Ethnic Slur in Linguistic Taboo | 第106页 |
| 5．6 The Replacement | 第106-109页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第109-112页 |
| 6．1 Conclusions on the characteristics of taboo words | 第109-110页 |
| 6．2 Conclusions on the taboo words usage | 第110-112页 |
| Acknowlegements | 第112-113页 |
| Reference | 第113-116页 |
| APPENDIX | 第116-127页 |
