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Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Problems
1.3 Purposes
1.4 Significance of study
1.5 Limitation
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Defining antonymy
2.2 Properties of antonymy
2.3 Antonymy and rhetoric
Chapter Three Linguistic Approach to Antonymy
3.1 Opposition and antonymy
3.2 Antonyms as gradable opposites
3.2.1 Comparison of gradable antonyms
3.2.2 Committedness of gradable antonyms
3.2.3 Markedness of gradable antonyms
3.3 Other types of opposites
3.4 Near-opposites
Chapter Four Rhetorical Approach to Antonymy
4.1 Antonymy and co-occurrence
4.1.1 A test of the WordNet model
4.1.2 Co-occurrence hypothesis
4.1.3 Antonymy as association— a psychological view
4.1.4 Antonymy reflects bipolarity— a world view
4.2 Linguistic analysis of the rhetorical use of antonymy
4.2.1 Co-occurrence between syntactic frames
4.2.2 Co-occurrence across syntactic classes
4.2.3 Idiomatic use of co-occurrence of antonyms
4.2.4 Figurative use of co-occurrence of antonyms
4.3 The rationale of the use of antonymy in rhetoric
Chapter Five Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgements