| Acknowledgement | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-15页 |
| Contents | 第15-18页 |
| Introduction | 第18-20页 |
| Part Ⅰ Preliminaries | 第20-39页 |
| Chapter 1 A Review of Previous Studies in Information Structure and the Partition of Sentence Meaning | 第20-39页 |
| ·Introduction | 第20-22页 |
| ·The previous studies in the models of information structure | 第22-34页 |
| ·Early models of information structure | 第23-28页 |
| ·Classical models of information structure | 第28-34页 |
| ·Our view on the status of information structure: multi-facets | 第34-37页 |
| ·Summary | 第37-39页 |
| Part Ⅱ A Cognitive Approach to Information Structure | 第39-84页 |
| Chapter 2 Conceptualization Processes Interpretation for Syntactic Realization of Information Structure | 第41-64页 |
| ·Introduction | 第41-42页 |
| ·Conceptualization processes on propositional model | 第42-58页 |
| ·Simple frame | 第42-48页 |
| ·Windowing of attention in script restricted to motion event-frame | 第48-53页 |
| ·Windowing of attention in other event-frames | 第53-58页 |
| ·Conceptualization processes on image-schematic model | 第58-63页 |
| ·Comparison/Contrast: figure--ground | 第58-60页 |
| ·Profiling | 第60-62页 |
| ·Perspective | 第62-63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-64页 |
| Chapter 3 Iconicity Interpretation for Syntactic Realization of Information Structure | 第64-84页 |
| ·Introduction | 第64-66页 |
| ·Sequence/Order iconicity | 第66-69页 |
| ·Quantity iconicity | 第69-70页 |
| ·Markedness iconicity | 第70-72页 |
| ·Distance iconicity | 第72-83页 |
| ·Degree of prominence within syntactic construction | 第72-74页 |
| ·Degree of prominence within Chinese noun phrase | 第74-80页 |
| ·Degree of prominence within English noun phrase | 第80-83页 |
| ·Summary | 第83-84页 |
| Part Ⅲ A Pragmatic Approach to Information Structure | 第84-112页 |
| Chapter 4 Syntactic Realization of Information Structure out of Context | 第85-98页 |
| ·Introduction | 第85-86页 |
| ·End-focus requirement | 第86-92页 |
| ·Processibility Principle | 第86-89页 |
| ·Clarity Principle | 第89页 |
| ·Manner Maxim | 第89-90页 |
| ·Quantity-Quality Maxim | 第90-92页 |
| ·Preposed focus requirement--Economy Principle | 第92-95页 |
| ·Right-shifting of less important information | 第92-94页 |
| ·Left-shifting of contrastive focus | 第94-95页 |
| ·Principles competition--special devices marking focus | 第95-97页 |
| ·Summary | 第97-98页 |
| Chapter 5 Relation Maxim's Constraint on Syntactic Realization of Information Structure for Discourse Coherence | 第98-112页 |
| ·Introduction | 第98-99页 |
| ·Preposing | 第99-107页 |
| ·Theoretical basis | 第99-101页 |
| ·Relation Maxim's constraint on preposing | 第101-107页 |
| ·Preposed link as topic | 第103-107页 |
| ·Preposed link as focus | 第107页 |
| ·Canonical word orders | 第107-110页 |
| ·Reference | 第108-109页 |
| ·Substitution | 第109-110页 |
| ·Summary | 第110-112页 |
| Part Ⅳ A Diachronic Perspective | 第112-125页 |
| Chapter 6 The Degree of Grammaticalization of Information Structure in English and Chinese | 第113-125页 |
| ·Introduction | 第113页 |
| ·The degree of grammaticalization of topic in English and Chinese | 第113-120页 |
| ·Topicalization in simple SVO construction | 第114-116页 |
| ·Topicalization in argument split topic structure | 第116-118页 |
| ·Topicalization in Chinese‘把’construction containing a VC phrase | 第118-120页 |
| ·The degree of grammaticalization of focus in word order patterns of English and Chinese | 第120-124页 |
| ·Summary | 第124-125页 |
| Conclusion | 第125-127页 |
| Works Cited | 第127-130页 |
