本书旨在解决语义韵理论与应用实践中如何建立一个较为完善的语义韵理论，语义韵跨越语言的表现与规律，和双语词典编纂中语义韵应对策略。书中概括了语义韵的界面性，暂时性，阶段性，底可感知度，评价性等五个性质，探讨了语义韵相关的五种关系：语义韵与内涵意义，过程与结果，历时与共时，词语与组合，二元与多元。

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