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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Significance and Data-to-Analyze of the Thesis
1.2 Research Goals and Methodology
1.3 Layout of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 A Key Notion: Style
2.1.1 Polysemous Nature of Style
2.1.2 Style: a Working Definition
2.2 The Historical Development of the Theory of Foregrounding
2.2.1 Historical Origin of the Foregrounding Theory
2.2.2 Russian Formalism and “Defamiliarization”
2.2.3 Prague School Structualists' Foregrounding Theory
2.2.4 Leech's Synthesis of the Foregrounding Theory
2.2.5 Halliday's Conception of the Foregrounding Theory
2.2.6 Van Peer's Pragmatic View towards Foregrounding
2.2.7 Foregrounding Theory and Its Application in China
2.3 An Integrative Mode for Foregrounding
Chapter Three Fortress Besieged: the Text for Analysis
3.1 Theme and Content of Fortress Besieged
3.2 Previous Academic Studies of Fortress Besieged
Chapter Four Direction of Foregrounding
4.1 Chien Chung-shu's Foregrounding Consciousness
4.2 Chien's Understanding of Metaphorical Use of Language
Chapter Five Textual Realization of Foregrounding
5.1 Foregrounding of Metaphorical Use of Language
5.1.1 Frequent Occurrence of Metaphorical Expressions in Fortress Besieged
5.1.2 Divergence between the Source and the Target Domains
5.1.3 Density of Metaphorical Expressions
5.1.4 Preference for Similes
5.1.5 Foregrounding of Metaphorical Use of Language: More than Embellishment
5.2 Other Foregrounding Features of Language in the Novel
5.2.1 Dialectal Foregrounding
5.2.2 Foregrounding of Register and Historical Period
5.2.3 Lexical Foregrounding
5.3 Summary
Chapter Six Foregrounding from the Reader's Point of View
6.1 Reader's Interpretation of Foregrounding in Fortress Besieged
6.2 The Integrative Mode Revisited
Chapter Seven Conclusion
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