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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£º 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£º The Italian Ones
2£®12 Hunston et al£® and Evaluative£¬ Inexplicit Prosodies
2£®13 Louw and Contextual Prosodic Theory¡ª¡ªConsistencies 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¡ª¡ªSemantic 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£º 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£º 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£º 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£º 143 Cases of Words/Phrases Explored for Semantic Prosodies£¬ 1987-2010
Appendix B£º Concordances of the Bush Regime in Sketch Engine£º A Sample
Appendix C£º Concordances of the Bush Regime in COCA
Appendix D£º The Article that Causes a Lawsuit of Libel by Lee Kuan Yew against Christopher Lingle£º Smoke over Parts of Asia Obscures Some Profound Concerns
Appendix E£º Collocate Candidates of BUDGE in BNC by the Sketch Engine
Appendix F£º First 64 Collocates of ÎÆË¿ by the Sketch Engine
Appendix G£º Concordance Lines of BUDGE in BNC by the Sketch Engine
Appendix H£º Corpora Employed in this Dissertation
Appendix I£º Dictionaries Consulted in this Thesis

References
Acknowledgments