前言
中文摘要
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF TABLES
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
1.1 The subject of the research
1.1.1 The Ba-construction in discourse
1.1.2 The diachronic development of the Ba-
construction
1.2 Theoretical assumptions
1.2.1 Language as a communicative instrument
Functionalism in linguistics
1.2.2 Language as a cognitive activity -- Cognitive
linguistics
1.2.3 A functional-cognitive integrated approach
1.3 Research objectives
1.4 Research approaches
1.4.1 Research approach to the meaning of the Ba-
construction
1.4.2 Research approach to the English realizations
of the Ba-construction
1.5 Outline of the study
CHAPTER TWO REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1 Ideational meaning
2.1.1 Disposal and the verb in the Ba-construction
2.1.2 Disposal and the verb-object relations in the
Ba-construction
2.1.3 Topic-comment approach
2.1.4 Cognitive approaches
2.2 Interpersonal meaning
2.3 Textual meaning
2.3.1 The information structure of the Ba-
construction
2.3.2 The cohesive function of the Ba-construction
2.3.3 The semantic context of the Ba-construction
2.4 Summary and critical evaluation
2.4.1 Summary of understandings of the meaning
of the Ba-construction
2.4.2 Critical evaluations of the previous studies
CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL HYPOTHESES AND
RESEARCH FRAMEWORKS
3.1 Some hypotheses of the meaning of the Ba-
construction
3.1.1 General hypotheses
3.1.2 Specific hypotheses
3.2 Research frameworks
3.2.1 Causative semantics and the ideational
meaning of the Ba-construction
3.2.2 Appraisal Theory and the interpersonal