| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-9页 |
| Part Ⅰ Iconicity and Peirce's theory of signs | 第9-12页 |
| 1．1 What is iconicity | 第9页 |
| 1．2 Peirce's theory of signs and the study of iconicity | 第9-12页 |
| Part Ⅱ Iconicity of Distance | 第12-27页 |
| 2．1 The principles of distance iconicity | 第12页 |
| 2．2 The expression of distance iconicity in syntax | 第12-24页 |
| 2．2．1 The expression in coordination | 第12-13页 |
| 2．2．2 The expression in interclausal relation | 第13-16页 |
| 2．2．3 The expression in to-or from-marked construction | 第16-17页 |
| 2．2．4 The expresston in transitivity | 第17页 |
| 2．2．5 The expression in head-last NP or relative clause | 第17-19页 |
| 2．2．6 The expression in contraction | 第19-20页 |
| 2．2．7 The expression in quotation or title | 第20页 |
| 2．2．8 The expression in independence | 第20-22页 |
| 2．2．9 The expression in symmetry | 第22-24页 |
| 2．3 The expression of distance iconicity in morphology | 第24-27页 |
| 2．3．1 The expression in inflection | 第24-25页 |
| 2．3．2 The expression in NP | 第25-27页 |
| Part Ⅲ Iconicity of Order | 第27-31页 |
| 3．1 The principles of order iconicity | 第27页 |
| 3．2 The expression of order iconicity in syntax | 第27-30页 |
| 3．2．1 The expression in temporal order | 第27-29页 |
| 3．2．2 The expression in unmarkedness-markedness order | 第29-30页 |
| 3．3 The expression of order iconicity in text structure | 第30-31页 |
| Part Ⅳ Iconicity of Quantity | 第31-36页 |
| 4．1 The principles of quantity iconicity | 第31页 |
| 4．2 The expression of quantity iconicity in morphology and syntax | 第31-36页 |
| 4．2．1 The expression at pragmatic level | 第32-36页 |
| Part Ⅴ The Cognitive Significance of Iconicity | 第36-41页 |
| 5．1 Iconicity and cognition and cognitive linguistics | 第36-37页 |
| 5．2 The cognitive significance of iconicity of distance | 第37-38页 |
| 5．3 The cognitive significance of iconicity of order | 第38-40页 |
| 5．4 The cognitive significance of iconicity of quantity | 第40-41页 |
| Part Ⅵ Conclusion | 第41-43页 |
| Bibliography | 第43-44页 |
