| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| List of tables | 第7-9页 |
| List of figures | 第9-11页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Research background | 第14-16页 |
| ·Research objectives | 第16页 |
| ·Research methodology | 第16-17页 |
| ·Structure of the thesis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature review | 第18-30页 |
| ·Review of collocation | 第18-20页 |
| ·Review of semantic prosody | 第20-28页 |
| ·Definition of semantic prosody | 第20-22页 |
| ·Categories of semantic prosody | 第22-23页 |
| ·Collocation, colligation, semantic prosody and semantic preference | 第23-24页 |
| ·Previous study on semantic prosody | 第24-28页 |
| ·Review of near-synonymy/equivalent | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Three Research design | 第30-40页 |
| ·Research questions | 第30页 |
| ·The selection of lexical items for study | 第30-31页 |
| ·The contrastive interlanguage analysis approach | 第31-32页 |
| ·Corpus approach | 第32-33页 |
| ·The corpora and analytic instrument | 第33-36页 |
| ·The corpora | 第33-34页 |
| ·The analytic instrument | 第34-36页 |
| ·Research procedures | 第36-40页 |
| Chapter Four Results and discussion | 第40-100页 |
| ·Semantic prosodic behaviour of FIND group | 第40-55页 |
| ·Collocation and semantic prosodies of English near synonyms in CEM | 第41-46页 |
| ·Collocation and semantic prosodies of English near synonyms in COCA | 第46-54页 |
| ·Comparison and contrast between CEMs and NSs | 第54-55页 |
| ·Semantic prosodic behaviour of CHANGE group | 第55-67页 |
| ·Collocation and semantic prosodies of English near-synonyms in CEM | 第56-61页 |
| ·Collocation and semantic prosodies of English near-synonyms in COCA | 第61-66页 |
| ·Comparison and contrast between CEMs and NSs | 第66-67页 |
| ·Semantic prosodic behaviour of KEEP group | 第67-75页 |
| ·Collocation and semantic prosodies of English near-synonyms in CEM | 第67-71页 |
| ·Collocation and semantic prosodies of English near-synonyms in COCA | 第71-75页 |
| ·Comparison and contrast between CEMs and NSs | 第75页 |
| ·Semantic prosodic behaviour of OFFER group | 第75-87页 |
| ·Collocation and semantic prosodies of English near-synonyms in CEM | 第76-80页 |
| ·Collocation and semantic prosodies of English near-synonyms in COCA | 第80-86页 |
| ·Comparison and contrast between CEMs and NSs | 第86-87页 |
| ·Exploration of possible reasons from cross-linguistic perspective | 第87-100页 |
| ·Collocational profiles and semantic prosodies of 发现in CCL | 第87-91页 |
| ·Collocational profiles and semantic prosodies of 提供in CCL | 第91-93页 |
| ·Collocational profile and semantic prosody of 改变in CCL | 第93-94页 |
| ·Collocational profile and semantic prosody of 保持and 维持in CCL | 第94-97页 |
| ·Comparison and contrast analysis between English and Chinese | 第97-100页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第100-104页 |
| ·Major findings of present study | 第100-101页 |
| ·Implications of the present study | 第101-103页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study | 第103-104页 |
| Bibliography | 第104-108页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第108-109页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间的研究成果 | 第109页 |
