| Synopsis | 第1-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-10页 |
| Charpter One Linguistic Signs —Two Dominant Models | 第10-16页 |
| ·The Saussurean Model | 第10-11页 |
| ·The Peircean Model | 第11-16页 |
| Charpter Two Arbitrariness —Saussure’s First Principle of Linguistic Signs | 第16-26页 |
| ·The Pre-Saussure Interpretations | 第16-19页 |
| ·Saussure’s Interpretation | 第19-26页 |
| Charpter Three Iconicity —Challenge or Complementarity? | 第26-38页 |
| ·Emergence of the Notion of Iconicity —Peircean Typology of Signs | 第26-30页 |
| ·Structure-Concept Iconicity —Development of Peircean Typology of Signs | 第30-32页 |
| ·Definition of Iconicity | 第32-33页 |
| ·Iconicity —Challenge or Complementarity? | 第33-38页 |
| Charpter Four The Interactive Relations between Arbitrariness and Iconicity | 第38-77页 |
| ·Language Origin and Evolution —the Diachronic Approach | 第39-62页 |
| ·Relations between Sound and Meaning —the Synchronic Approach | 第62-72页 |
| ·Relations between Arbitrariness and Iconicity | 第72-77页 |
| Conclusion | 第77-79页 |
| Bibliography | 第79-81页 |
| Abstract | 第81-87页 |
| 摘要 | 第87-91页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第91-92页 |
| 导师及作者简介 | 第92页 |
