Acknowledgements 4-6 摘要 6-8 Abstract 8-9 Chapter One Introduction 13-18 1.1 Motivations 13-14 1.2 Objectives of the Study 14 1.3 Guiding Theories in the Study 14-15 1.4 Design of the Study 15-16 1.5 Data and Corpora 16 1.6 Significance of the Study 16-18 Chapter Two Literature Review 18-33 2.1 Theoretical Considerations 18-27 2.1.1 Corpus Approach 18-20 2.1.1.1 Corpus in Research 18-20 2.1.1.2 Choice of Corpora 20 2.1.2 Cognitive Study 20-25 2.1.2.1 Cognitive approach and this study 20-21 2.1.2.2 Prototype category 21-22 2.1.2.3 Semantic considerations 22-23 2.1.2.4 Polysemous feature in dimensional terms 23-25 2.1.3 Contrastive Study 25-27 2.1.3.1 Theoretical issues 25-26 2.1.3.2 Terminological Discussion 26-27 2.2 Previous Related Researches 27-33 Chapter Three Dictionary Study 33-43 3.1 Methodological Considerations 33 3.2 高in Dictionary 33-39 3.2.1 In Etymology Dictionary of Chinese Characters 33-34 3.2.2 In Modern Chinese Frequency Dictionary 34-35 3.2.3 In Collocation Dictionary of Chinese Notional Words 35 3.2.4 In Modern Chinese Dictionary 35-36 3.2.5 In Pragmatic Adjective Dictionary 36-37 3.2.6 In Usage Dictionary of Notional Words 37-38 3.2.7 In Modern Chinese Collocation Dictionary 38-39 3.3 HIGH and TALL in the English Dictionary 39-40 3.3.1 In Collins COBUILD English Dictionary 39-40 3.3.2 In Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary (Extended fourth edition) 40 3.4 Contrastive Analysis 40-43 Chapter Four Corpus Study 43-51 4.1 Methodological Considerations 43-47 4.1.1 Methodology in related studies 43-44 4.1.2 Methodology with Chinese corpus 44-46 4.1.3 Methodology with English corpus 46-47 4.2 The Results 47-51 4.2.1 Results from Chinese corpus 47-49 4.2.2 Results from English Corpus 49-51 Chapter Five Results and Discussion on 高and HIGH/TALL 51-69 5.1 Grouping Considerations 51-52 5.2 Characteristics of Objects Modified by 高and HIGH/TALL 52-61 5.2.1 Objects with a canonical vertical orientation 54-55 5.2.2 Objects with a ground location 55-57 5.2.3 Objects with factive motion 57-58 5.2.4 Objects with vertical maximal dimension 58-59 5.2.5 Objects with size as big as or bigger than human being 59 5.2.6 Objects that profile against the background 59-60 5.2.7 Objects with a functional top 60-61 5.2.8 Objects of rigid material 61 5.3 Prototypical Uses and Central Cases of 高and HIGH/TALL 61-63 5.4 Less Prototypical Uses of高and HIGH/TALL 63-64 5.5 Contrastive Analysis with Other Research Findings 64-67 5.6 Summary 67-69 Chapter Six Contributions and Limitations 69-72 6.1 The Contributions 69-70 6.2 The Limitations 70-72 References 72-78 |
