| Abstract in English | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第9-10页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第10-11页 |
| List of Tables | 第11-12页 |
| List of Figures | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One introduction | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-35页 |
| ·Review of collocation | 第16-19页 |
| ·Definitions of collocation | 第16-17页 |
| ·Classification of collocation | 第17-18页 |
| ·Classification as combination of grammar and lexis | 第18-19页 |
| ·Review of semantic prosody | 第19-23页 |
| ·Louw's definition of semantic prosody | 第19-21页 |
| ·Sinclair's definition of semantic prosody | 第21页 |
| ·Stubbs' definition of semantic prosody | 第21-22页 |
| ·Partington's definition of semantic prosody | 第22-23页 |
| ·Hunston and Francis' definition of semantic prosody | 第23页 |
| ·Distinction of some synonymous terms | 第23-28页 |
| ·Collocation | 第24-25页 |
| ·Colligation | 第25-26页 |
| ·Semantic preference | 第26页 |
| ·Connotation | 第26-27页 |
| ·Semantic prosody | 第27-28页 |
| ·Previously-studied examples of semantic prosodies:a summary | 第28-30页 |
| ·Review of relevant studies made by Chinese researchers | 第30-32页 |
| ·An operating definition for semantic prosody and its categorization | 第32-35页 |
| ·An operating definition for semantic prosody | 第32-34页 |
| ·An operating classification of semantic prosody | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第35-46页 |
| ·Researchquestions | 第35页 |
| ·The selection of lexical items for comparison | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis Approach | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Item-Environment method | 第37页 |
| ·The corpora and software used | 第37-40页 |
| ·The corpora used | 第37-38页 |
| ·The software employed | 第38-40页 |
| ·The research procedure | 第40-46页 |
| ·Concordance | 第40-42页 |
| ·Colligation | 第42-43页 |
| ·Statistical measures | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第46-69页 |
| ·Negative semantic prosody | 第46-59页 |
| ·The semantic prosodic features of COMMIT | 第46-54页 |
| ·The semantic prosodic features of COMMIT in Brown | 第47-51页 |
| ·The semantic prosodic features of COMMIT in CLEC | 第51-54页 |
| ·The semantic prosodic features of CAUSE | 第54-59页 |
| ·The semantic prosodic features of CAUSE in Brown | 第55-57页 |
| ·The semantic prosodic features of CAUSE in CLEC | 第57-59页 |
| ·Positive semantic prosody | 第59-63页 |
| ·The semantic prosodic features of career in Brown | 第59-61页 |
| ·The semantic prosodic features of career in CLEC | 第61-63页 |
| ·Mixed semantic prosody | 第63-69页 |
| ·The semantic prosodic features of effect in Brown | 第64-66页 |
| ·The semantic prosodic features of effect in CLEC | 第66-69页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第69-75页 |
| ·Major findings | 第69-70页 |
| ·Implications | 第70-73页 |
| ·Limitations | 第73-75页 |
| References | 第75-81页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第81-82页 |
| Publications | 第82-83页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第83页 |
