| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Academic Achievements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-22页 |
| ·Motivation for the Research | 第14-16页 |
| ·Content to be Investigated | 第16-20页 |
| ·The Attributes of Time and Space | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Assumptive Definitions of the Temporality of English and the Spatiality of Chine | 第18-19页 |
| ·Major Research Questions | 第19-20页 |
| ·Methodology and Organization of the Thesis | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第22-29页 |
| ·Contrastive Studies between English and Chinese | 第22-24页 |
| ·Studies of the Temporality of English and the Spatiality of Chinese | 第24-28页 |
| ·Cheng Zhongying’s Statements from the Writing System Angle | 第25-26页 |
| ·Xu Tongqiang’s Statements from the Lexical Angle | 第26-27页 |
| ·Wang Wenbin’s Statements from the Syntactic Angle | 第27-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第29-34页 |
| ·Qian Guanlian’s Theory of Language Holography | 第29-32页 |
| ·Humboldt’s Notion of Inner Linguistic Form | 第32-33页 |
| ·Summary | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter Four The Clues of Time and Space in English and Chinese | 第34-41页 |
| ·The Views of Time and Space Held by the English Nation and the Chinese Nation | 第34-37页 |
| ·The English Nation’s Preference for Time | 第35页 |
| ·The Chinese Nation’s Preference for Space | 第35-37页 |
| ·The Original Clues of the Temporality of English and the Spatiality of Chinese | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Temporality-Oriented Origin in English | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Spatiality-Oriented Origin in Chinese | 第38-40页 |
| ·Summary | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Five The Temporality of English | 第41-59页 |
| ·The Continuity of English | 第41-47页 |
| ·The Predominant Role of the Subject-Predicate Construction | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Continuity in the Grammatical Categories | 第43-47页 |
| ·The Connectivity of English | 第47-55页 |
| ·The Key Role of the Connection in English | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Connectivity in Sentences | 第49-55页 |
| ·The Connectivity in Words or Phrases | 第49-51页 |
| ·The Connectivity among Clauses | 第51-55页 |
| ·The Irreversibility of English | 第55-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter Six The Spatiality of Chinese | 第59-83页 |
| ·The Chunkiness of Chinese | 第59-71页 |
| ·The Chunky Units in the Chinese Sentence | 第61-64页 |
| ·The Incompleteness of the Sentence Elements | 第64-66页 |
| ·The Condensation of Sentence Structures | 第66-69页 |
| ·The Chunkiness in the Phonetic Pauses | 第69-71页 |
| ·The Discreteness of Chinese | 第71-77页 |
| ·The Internal Coherence | 第72-73页 |
| ·The External Coherence | 第73-77页 |
| ·The Reversibility of Chinese | 第77-82页 |
| ·Summary | 第82-83页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第83-88页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第83-86页 |
| ·Implications | 第86-87页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第87-88页 |
| References | 第88-92页 |
| Example Sources | 第92页 |
