| 中文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第4-6页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Traditional Study on Oxymoron as Rhetorical Device | 第6-12页 |
| ·Definition of Oxymoron | 第6-7页 |
| ·Oxymoron as Rhetorical Device | 第7-12页 |
| ·Its Rhetorical Effect | 第7-8页 |
| ·Usual Patterns of Collocation | 第8-9页 |
| ·Usual Grammatical Patterns | 第9-10页 |
| ·Essence of Oxymoron as Rhetorical Device | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Three Basic Theories of Cognitive Linguistics | 第12-19页 |
| ·Categorization | 第12-15页 |
| ·Classical Approach to Categorization | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Inadequacy of Traditional Logic | 第13-15页 |
| ·Prototype Theory | 第15-16页 |
| ·Basic Level Category Theory | 第16-19页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ The Cognitive Mechanism of Oxymoron | 第19-35页 |
| ·The Standing Background of Oxymoron | 第19-20页 |
| ·Oxymoron —— A Cognitive Device of Unique Glamour | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Cognitive Mechanism of Oxymoron | 第22-26页 |
| ·Usual Contradiction Displaying Patterns Used in Oxymoron | 第26-35页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Oxymoron Understanding Based on Relevance Theory | 第35-42页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第35-38页 |
| ·Oxymoron Treated as Loose Talk | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Framework of Three Sub-tasks | 第39-40页 |
| ·Construction of Contextual Assumptions | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ the Cognitive Process of Oxymoron Understanding | 第42-54页 |
| ·Introduction | 第42-43页 |
| ·Important Roles of Context | 第43-46页 |
| ·General Introduction on Context | 第43-44页 |
| ·Four Classifications of Context | 第44-46页 |
| ·Oxymoron Understanding: Explicature Construction | 第46-47页 |
| ·Oxymoron Understanding: Contextual Assumptions Construction | 第47-49页 |
| ·Oxymoron Understanding: Recovery of Implicature | 第49-50页 |
| ·The Proposed Model for Understanding Oxymoron | 第50-52页 |
| ·A Further Discussion | 第52-54页 |
| Conclusion | 第54-55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-57页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第57页 |
