| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Language as a Sign System | 第12-25页 |
| ·Signs and Linguistic Signs | 第12-14页 |
| ·Signs | 第12-13页 |
| ·Linguistic Signs | 第13页 |
| ·Language as a Sign System | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Nature of Linguistic Signs | 第14-18页 |
| ·The View of Arbitrariness | 第14-16页 |
| ·Saussure's Principle of Arbitrariness | 第14-15页 |
| ·Saussure's View of Relative Arbitrariness | 第15-16页 |
| ·Peirce's Theory of Signs and the Study of Iconicity | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Theoretical Basis of Iconicity | 第18-25页 |
| ·Defining Iconicity | 第18-20页 |
| ·Iconicity in Pragmatics | 第20-22页 |
| ·Haiman's Iconicity Theory | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Two Syntactic Iconicity of Linguistic Signs | 第25-50页 |
| 2. 1 Iconicity of Quantity | 第25-30页 |
| ·Quantity Iconicity in Terms of Single Syntax | 第25-27页 |
| ·Quantity Iconicity in Terms of Multi-syntax | 第27-30页 |
| ·Iconicity of Order | 第30-34页 |
| ·The Principle of Order Iconicity | 第30页 |
| ·The Expression of Order Iconicity | 第30-34页 |
| ·Iconicity of Distance | 第34-45页 |
| ·The Expression of Distance Iconicity | 第35-45页 |
| ·Iconicity of Markedness | 第45-50页 |
| ·The Marked Term Corresponding to the Additional Meanin | 第46页 |
| ·Markedness Corresponding to the Perceptual and Cultural Saliency | 第46-50页 |
| Chapter Three The Rhetorical Function of Syntactic Iconicity | 第50-65页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Rhetoric | 第50-51页 |
| ·Rhetorical Function of Syntactic Iconicity | 第51-65页 |
| ·Iconicity of Quantity and Its Rhetorical Function | 第51-56页 |
| ·Rhetorical Function of Using More Linguistic Sign | 第52-54页 |
| ·Rhetorical Function of Using Less Linguistic Sign | 第54-56页 |
| ·Iconicity of Order and Its Rhetorical Function | 第56-60页 |
| ·Rhetorical Function of Semantic Principle of Iconicity of Word Order | 第56-59页 |
| ·2 Rhetorical Function of Pragmatic Principle of Iconicity of Word Order | 第59-60页 |
| ·Iconicity of Markedness and Its Rhetorical Function | 第60-65页 |
| ·Violation of Normal Collocation | 第60-61页 |
| ·Parody | 第61-62页 |
| ·Oxymoron | 第62-63页 |
| ·Exaggeration | 第63-64页 |
| ·Irony | 第64页 |
| ·Rhetorical question | 第64-65页 |
| Chapter Four Syntactic Iconicity and English Teaching | 第65-75页 |
| ·Syntactic Iconicity and English Grammar Teaching | 第65-71页 |
| ·Iconicity of Quantity and Grammar Teaching | 第65-66页 |
| ·Iconicity of Order and Grammar Teaching | 第66-67页 |
| ·Iconicity of Distance and Grammar Teaching | 第67-71页 |
| ·Transitivity | 第67页 |
| ·Causation | 第67-68页 |
| ·Coordination | 第68-69页 |
| ·Possession | 第69页 |
| ·Finite Attribute Clause vs. Infinite Attribute Clause | 第69-70页 |
| ·The Order of Adjectives | 第70-71页 |
| ·Rhetorical Function and English Reading and Writing | 第71-75页 |
| ·Iconicity of Quantity and Reading | 第71-73页 |
| ·Iconicity of Order and Reading | 第73页 |
| ·Rhetorical Function and English Writing | 第73-75页 |
| Conclusion | 第75-76页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第76-77页 |
| Bibliography | 第77-80页 |
