| Synopsis | 第1-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-17页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第10页 |
| ·A Brief Summary of Intonation Research both at Home and Abroad | 第10-15页 |
| ·Study of Phonetics | 第10-12页 |
| ·Study of Intonation | 第12-15页 |
| ·Organization of the Paper | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Understanding Basic Conceptions | 第17-26页 |
| ·Typology in Languages | 第17-19页 |
| ·Phonetics and Phonology----Differences and Similarities | 第19-21页 |
| ·An Introduction to Suprasegmental Phonology | 第21-23页 |
| ·Properties of Intonation —Its Length, Loudness and Pitch | 第23-26页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Foundation: Contrastive Analysis and Functionalism | 第26-42页 |
| ·Defining Contrastive Analysis | 第26页 |
| ·A Historical Review of CA | 第26-28页 |
| ·Objectives and Approaches of CA | 第28-29页 |
| ·Functionalism: an Overview | 第29-42页 |
| ·Functionalism in Linguistics | 第29-34页 |
| ·Functionality in Halliday’s Functional Grammar | 第34-35页 |
| ·Application of Functionalism to Intonation Study | 第35-36页 |
| ·Review of Functional Analysis in Intonation | 第36-38页 |
| ·Hallidayan Thought on Phonology and Intonation Study | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Four A Contrastive Analysis of Intonation of English and Chinese from Perspective of Functionalism | 第42-76页 |
| ·English Intonation and its Implications | 第43-48页 |
| ·Tone Group | 第45-46页 |
| ·Structure of a Tone Group | 第46-48页 |
| ·Chinese: Tone Language | 第48-54页 |
| ·Four Basic Tones and the Neutral Tone | 第48-51页 |
| ·Tone Sandhi | 第51-54页 |
| ·Functions of Chinese Tones | 第54-56页 |
| ·Functions of Intonation in English and Chinese | 第56-76页 |
| ·Attitudinal Functions | 第56-60页 |
| ·Grammatical Functions | 第60-65页 |
| ·Informational Functions | 第65-69页 |
| ·Discourse Functions | 第69-76页 |
| Chapter Five Summary and Limitation | 第76-78页 |
| Bibliography | 第78-82页 |
| Abstract | 第82-85页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第85-88页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第88-89页 |
| 导师及作者简介 | 第89页 |
