摘要4-5
Abstract5-8
Chapter 1 Introduction8-10
Chapter 2 Literature Review10-16
2.1 The studies on the text world theory10-13
2.2 The studies on Li Shangyin's poetry13-16
Chapter 3 The Discourse World and Artistic Conceptions16-22
3.1 Exploring context16-19
3.2 Common ground and text-drivenness19-22
Chapter 4 The Text-world and Artistic Conceptions22-38
4.1 Building the text world22-27
4.1.1 The definition of world builders and their types22-25
4.1.2 Function-advancing Propositions25-27
4.2 Exploring artistic conception in the text world27-38
4.2.1 The text-world level in practice27-32
4.2.2 Narratives and metaphors at the text-world level32-38
Chapter 5 Sub-worlds and Artistic Conceptions38-53
5.1 The classification of sub-worlds38-48
5.1.1 Deictic sub-worlds38-42
5.1.2 Attitudinal sub-worlds42-46
5.1.3 Epistemic sub-worlds46-48
5.2 Exploring artistic conceptions in sub-worlds48-53
Chapter 6 Conclusion53-55
Acknowledgements55-56
Bibpography56-57