| Acknowledgement | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Background of this research | 第11-12页 |
| ·Aim and purpose of the study | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter Two Origin of the Principle of Linguistic Relativity | 第15-21页 |
| ·Origin of the principle of linguistics relativity | 第15-18页 |
| ·Wilhelm von Humboldt | 第15-16页 |
| ·Franz Boas | 第16-17页 |
| ·Edward Sapir | 第17-18页 |
| ·Benjamin Lee Whorf and the principle | 第18-21页 |
| ·Benjamin Lee Whorf | 第18-19页 |
| ·The linguistic relativity principle | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three Review on the Echo Researches of the Principle | 第21-51页 |
| ·Introduction of the echo researches in Western countries | 第21-22页 |
| ·Empirical researches of the principle | 第22-39页 |
| ·Lexical categories | 第22-26页 |
| ·Grammatical categories | 第26-33页 |
| ·Cognitive linguistics categories | 第33-39页 |
| ·Other researches | 第39-41页 |
| ·Review on researches from the perspective of CDA | 第41-51页 |
| ·The theory of CDA | 第41-42页 |
| ·CDA and text analysis | 第42-43页 |
| ·Historic and academic context of empirical research | 第43-46页 |
| ·Intertextuality and presupposition analysis of the researches | 第46-51页 |
| Chapter Four Interpretation of the Principle | 第51-71页 |
| ·Preferable approaches to the principle | 第51-54页 |
| ·The notion of “the Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis”misused | 第52页 |
| ·Holistic view of the principle | 第52-54页 |
| ·Analysis of Whorf’s linguistic relativity principle | 第54-65页 |
| ·Whorf’reasoning of the principle | 第54-58页 |
| ·Whorf’s cross culture intention | 第58-63页 |
| ·Whorf’s relativity interwoven with universality | 第63-65页 |
| ·The contribution of the principle in constituting the world | 第65-71页 |
| ·The emergence of the discussion of the validity of the experiments on the principle | 第66-67页 |
| ·The application of Whorf linguistic relativity principle in some newly developed subjects | 第67-69页 |
| ·The application of the principle in foreign language teaching | 第69-71页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第71-74页 |
| Bibliography | 第74-77页 |
