| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abbreviations | 第8-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-12页 |
| Abstract | 第12-16页 |
| List of Figures | 第16-17页 |
| Table of Contents | 第17-22页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS | 第22-36页 |
| ·Focus of the research | 第27-31页 |
| ·The materials and methods of the Research | 第31-33页 |
| ·The hypotheses of the research | 第33页 |
| ·Organization of the individual chapters | 第33-36页 |
| CHAPTER 2 CLASSICAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS (CCL) vs. NEW COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS (NCL) | 第36-61页 |
| ·Classical Cognitive Linguistics (CCL) | 第36-47页 |
| ·Background of Chomsky’s Classical Cognitive Linguistics (CCL) | 第36-38页 |
| ·Chomsky’s fundamental assumptions under Western objectivism | 第38-40页 |
| ·General problems with CCL | 第40-47页 |
| ·Problems with Chomsky’s Core constructions | 第41-43页 |
| ·Problems with Chomsky’s Transitivity | 第43-45页 |
| ·Problems with Chomsky’s Compositional Semantics | 第45-47页 |
| ·DEVELOPMENT OF NEW COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS (NCL) | 第47-59页 |
| ·The assumption of NCL on language | 第48-50页 |
| ·Symbolic nature of language from NCL perspectives | 第50-52页 |
| ·NCL view of grammar | 第52-53页 |
| ·NCL embodied view of language | 第53-57页 |
| ·NCL view on the function of language | 第57-58页 |
| ·NCL view of constraints on language | 第58-59页 |
| ·Summary | 第59-61页 |
| CHAPTER 3 G-S-R-E APPROACH TO SEMANTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION OF POLYSEMY DAO (道/WAY) AND ITS EXTENSIONS | 第61-149页 |
| ·Embodied mechanism of language | 第61-101页 |
| ·Configurational structures of polysemy Dao (道/way) within G-S-R-E framework | 第61-74页 |
| ·The overlap between four principles of perception and semantic conceptualization of spatial language | 第63-70页 |
| ·The overlap between the construal of Figure - Ground and semantic conceptualization of language | 第70-74页 |
| ·Schema’s contribution to the general principle of meaningfulness within G-S-R-E framework | 第74-88页 |
| ·Schematic principle of organizing semantic conceptualization | 第75-78页 |
| ·Comparison and contrast of schema and Formalist rules | 第78-81页 |
| ·Schemas of Dao (道/way) at different levels of organization | 第81-88页 |
| ·Access to categorization: another cognitive ability relative to semantic conceptualization of polysemy Dao (道/way) and its extensions | 第88-91页 |
| ·Semantic conceptualization of polysemy Dao (道/way) in terms of Metonymy and metaphor | 第91-100页 |
| ·Semantic conceptualization of polysemy Dao (道/way) in terms of metonymy | 第91-93页 |
| ·Semantic conceptualization of polysemy in terms of metaphor | 第93-100页 |
| ·Summary | 第100-101页 |
| ·Non-linguistic and cognitive semantics | 第101-115页 |
| ·Traditional view of meaning: meaning in words alone | 第104-106页 |
| ·NCL view of meaning | 第106-113页 |
| ·Meaning in interaction with our bodies | 第106-108页 |
| ·Conceptualization central to NCL | 第108-110页 |
| ·Composite meaning of NCL | 第110-112页 |
| ·Economy of language | 第112-113页 |
| ·The content and construal for semantic conceptualization | 第113-115页 |
| ·The content and construal | 第113-114页 |
| ·The content | 第114页 |
| ·The construal | 第114-115页 |
| ·Summary | 第115页 |
| ·Elaborate networks of polysemy Dao (道/way) and its extensions within G- S-R-E framework | 第115-149页 |
| ·Meaning construction and Dynamicity | 第117-123页 |
| ·Concept change in terms of motion go/walk/move（走/行） | 第117-119页 |
| ·Mechanism of concept change in terms of motion go/walk/move（走/ 行） | 第119-123页 |
| ·Concept and mechanism of time in terms of motion way/go/move (道/路/走) | 第123-127页 |
| ·Concept Time in terms of motion way/go/move（道/路/走） | 第123-125页 |
| ·Mechanism of concept time through motion way/go/move（道/路/走） | 第125-127页 |
| ·Concepts right, wrong, behavior, or morality in terms of way/path (道/路) | 第127-130页 |
| ·Hierarchical embedding in the morphological and semantic extension of within the polysemy Dao (道/way) | 第130-147页 |
| ·Cognitive organizing systems in the extension of polysemy Dao（Way/道） | 第130-132页 |
| ·Productivity in the polysemous extension through due to topological characteristic of language | 第132-139页 |
| ·Pattern of recombination and emergency of polysemy Dao (道/Way) and its extensions | 第139-147页 |
| ·Summary | 第147-149页 |
| CHAPTER 4 IMPLICATIONS/CONCLUSIONS/FUTURE STUDIES | 第149-155页 |
| ·Implications of the study | 第149-152页 |
| ·Implications for the study of semantic conceptualization | 第149-150页 |
| ·Implications for language | 第150-151页 |
| ·Implications for philosophy | 第151-152页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第152-154页 |
| ·Future studies | 第154-155页 |
| Bibliography | 第155-163页 |
| Appendix: Polysemous meanings of Day (道/Way) | 第163-173页 |
