| Declaration | 第3-4页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第4页 |
| Key Words | 第4页 |
| Abbreviations | 第7-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| 1．1 The need for and the significane of the study on the ordering of polysemous senses in a dictionary | 第8-11页 |
| 1．2 Scope of present study | 第11页 |
| 1．3 Outline of the thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two Some Aspects of Polysemy | 第13-25页 |
| 2．1 Clarification of polysemy, polyseme and polysemous | 第13-14页 |
| 2．2 The evolution of polysemy | 第14-21页 |
| 2．2．1 Monosemy versus polysemy | 第14-16页 |
| 2．2．2 Two mechanisms of polysemy evolution: radiation and concatenation | 第16-19页 |
| 2．2．3 The main cause for the evolution of polysemy: metaphor | 第19-21页 |
| 2．2．4 Network-like link between polysemous senses | 第21页 |
| 2．3 Treatment of polysemy and homonymy in dictionaries | 第21-25页 |
| Chapter Three Ordering of Polysemous Senses in General Dictionaries | 第25-44页 |
| 3．1 What is a dictionary | 第25-26页 |
| 3．2 Evolution of sense ordering | 第26-30页 |
| 3．3 Word's meaning and dictionary sense | 第30-31页 |
| 3．4 Polysemy in lexicography | 第31-36页 |
| 3．4．1 Direct sense | 第31-33页 |
| 3．4．2 Other kinds of senses derived from direct sense | 第33-35页 |
| 3．4．3 Dominant sense and direct sense | 第35-36页 |
| 3．5 Different orderings of polysemous senses in dictionaries | 第36-44页 |
| 3．5．1 Three popular sense orderings | 第37-40页 |
| 3．5．2 Other extant sense orderings | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter Four Ordering of Polysemous Senses in Learner's Dictionaries | 第44-59页 |
| 4．1 Introductory remarks | 第44页 |
| 4．2 Learner's dictionary | 第44-46页 |
| 4．3 Cognitive theories and sense relation inside semantic domain | 第46-47页 |
| 4．4 General principles of sense ordering for learners' dictionaries | 第47-56页 |
| 4．4．1 Two branches of learner's dictionary | 第48页 |
| 4．4．2 Sense ordering by frequency | 第48-54页 |
| 4．4．3 Sense ordering by logical/semantic principle | 第54-56页 |
| 4．5 Ordering by frequency versus the principle of logical | 第56-59页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第59-63页 |
| 5．1 Summary of the present study | 第59-60页 |
| 5．2 Findings | 第60-61页 |
| 5．3 Limitations and implications for further study | 第61-63页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第63-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-70页 |
| Dictionaries cited | 第70-72页 |
| Electronic addresses | 第72页 |
| Others | 第72页 |
