| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| PREFACE | 第5-11页 |
| ABSTRACT IN CHINESE | 第11-12页 |
| ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH | 第12-17页 |
| CHAPTER ONE TWO VIEWS REGARDING THE NATURE OF ENGLISH INTONATION | 第17-29页 |
| ·Grammatical Basis as Fundamental: English Intonation is Predictable | 第17-22页 |
| ·English Intonation and Punctuation | 第17-18页 |
| ·English Intonation and Sentence Types | 第18-20页 |
| ·English Intonation and Syntactic Structure: A Generative Point of View | 第20-22页 |
| ·Attitudinal Basis as Fundamental: English Intonation is a Free Choice | 第22-24页 |
| ·Comments on the Views | 第24-29页 |
| ·Comments on the Grammatical-as-basic View | 第24-26页 |
| ·Comments on the Attitudinal-as-basic View | 第26-27页 |
| ·Intonation: A Combination of Predictability and Free Choice | 第27-29页 |
| CHAPTER TWO PREDICTABILITY OF ENGLISH INTONATION | 第29-51页 |
| ·Predictability of Nucleus Placement | 第29-39页 |
| ·Nucleus Assignment Rule | 第29-30页 |
| ·Irregular Nuclei in Broad Focus | 第30页 |
| ·Accounting for Irregular Nuclei in Broad Focus | 第30-39页 |
| ·Grammatical Interpretation:a Transformational-generative Point of View | 第30-35页 |
| ·Semantic Interpretation | 第35-39页 |
| ·A revised Nucleus Assignment Rule | 第39页 |
| ·Predictability of Nuclear Tone | 第39-49页 |
| ·Nuclear Tones and Sentence Types in English | 第40-44页 |
| ·Defining Sentence Types | 第40-41页 |
| ·Neutral and Non-neutral Tones of Each Sentence Type | 第41-44页 |
| ·Nuclear Tones and Cohesion | 第44-49页 |
| ·Coordinating Tone Sequences | 第44-45页 |
| ·Subordinating Tone Sequences | 第45-46页 |
| ·Constraints on Nuclear Tones | 第46-49页 |
| ·Tone Sequence | 第47-48页 |
| ·Tone Concord | 第48-49页 |
| ·English Intonation and Logic | 第49-50页 |
| ·Nucleus Placement and Presupposition | 第49-50页 |
| ·Nuclear Tones and Logical Relations | 第50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| CHAPTER THREE ENGLISH INTONATION AS A FREE CHOICE | 第51-63页 |
| ·English Intonation and Illocution | 第51-53页 |
| ·Illocution Types | 第51页 |
| ·English Intonation Changing the Illocution Type | 第51-52页 |
| ·English Intonation Within the Same Illocution Type | 第52-53页 |
| ·English Intonation and Politeness | 第53-57页 |
| ·The Politeness Principle | 第53-55页 |
| ·Intonation and Grade of Politeness | 第55-56页 |
| ·A Model of the Grade of Politeness | 第56-57页 |
| ·English Intonation and Attitude | 第57-59页 |
| ·The Neutral/Non-neutral Contrast | 第57-58页 |
| ·Intonation Expressing Neutral/Non-neutral Attitudes | 第58-59页 |
| ·English Intonation and Conversational Implicature | 第59-61页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Conveyed by Mismatch Between Intonation and Message | 第59-60页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Conveyed by Mismatch Between Intonation and Context | 第60-61页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature Conveyed by Mismatch Across Speaker Boundaries | 第61页 |
| ·Summary | 第61-63页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR INTERPRETING ENGLISH INTONATION | 第63-75页 |
| ·Scales Instead of Dichotomy | 第63-64页 |
| ·English Intonation at the Maximal End of Grammatical Function Scale | 第64-68页 |
| ·Distinctive Function of Nucleus Placement | 第64-65页 |
| ·Distinctive Function of Nuclear Tone | 第65-67页 |
| ·Distinctive Function of Intonation Boundary | 第67-68页 |
| ·English Intonation at Maximal End of Attitudinal Scale | 第68-70页 |
| ·Same Semantic Information, Different Intonation | 第69页 |
| ·Same Semantic Information, Same Intonation | 第69-70页 |
| ·English Intonation at the Middle of the Scales | 第70-74页 |
| ·Semantic Layer vs Pragmatic Layer | 第71-72页 |
| ·A Model for Generating Intonational Forms in English | 第72-73页 |
| ·Accounting for the Intonational Forms in English | 第73-74页 |
| ·Summary | 第74-75页 |
| REFERENCES | 第75-77页 |
