Abbreviations and Typographical Notes
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 The Evolution of the Concept of Semantic Prosody: Debut
2.2 Breal and Meaning Contagion
2.3 Ullmann and Habitual Collocations
2.4 Leech and Reflected Meaning
2.5 Halliday and (Non-) Texual Meaning
2.6 Sinclair's Seminal Work
2.7 Louw's Pioneering Work
2.8 Bublitz and his Diachronic "Halo of Meaning
2.9 Sinclair and Pragmatic Prosody
2.10 Stubbs and Discourse Prosody
2.11 Tognini-Bonelli and Discourse Prosody: The Italian Ones
2.12 Hunston et al. and Evaluative, Inexplicit Prosodies
2.13 Louw and Contextual Prosodic Theory--Consistencies and Fractures
2.14 Partington and Patterned Connotative Prosody
2.15 Hoey and Lexically Primed Semantic Association
2.16 Critiques and Debates of SP in the Literature
2.17 Universal Prosodies--Semantic Prosodies Contrasted Across Languages
2.18 Psycholinguistic Approach to Semantic Prosody Studies
2.19 SP Studies in China
Chapter 3 A New Interactive Theoretical Model of Semantic Prosody
3.1 Three Perspectives on Semantic Prosody: Existing Models
3.2 New Interactive Model of Meaning with Semantic Prosody as the Interface
3.3 Working Definition of Semantic Prosody
3.4 Five Fundamental Natures of Semantic Prosody
3.5 Semantic Prosody-centered/prompted Concepts: Key Issues Revisited
Chapter 4 Cross-Linguistic Semantic Prosodies
4.1 Cross-Linguistic SP Studies to Date
4.2 Cross-linguistic Contrast of Semantic Prosodies
4.3 Summary
Chapter 5 Semantic Prosody in Bilingual Lexicography: An English-Chinese Perspective
5.1 Status Quo of Bilingual Lexicography
5.2 Implications of Semantic Prosody for Bilingual Dictionaries
Chapter 6 Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix A: 143 Cases of Words/Phrases Explored for Semantic Prosodies, 1987-2010
Appendix B: Concordances of the Bush Regime in Sketch Engine: A Sample
Appendix C: Concordances of the Bush Regime in COCA
Appendix D: The Article that Causes a Lawsuit of Libel by Lee Kuan Yew against Christopher Lingle: Smoke over Parts of Asia Obscures Some Profound Concerns
Appendix E: Collocate Candidates of BUDGE in BNC by the Sketch Engine
Appendix F: First 64 Collocates of 纹丝 by the Sketch Engine
Appendix G: Concordance Lines of BUDGE in BNC by the Sketch Engine
Appendix H: Corpora Employed in this Dissertation
Appendix I: Dictionaries Consulted in this Thesis
References
Acknowledgments
