List of Tables

Table 3. 1 Hits of Four Basic Patterns and Their Variations……………………………………11

Table 3. 2 Distribution of[A][-A]Compounds with Tone Combination, from Ding and Huang（2014：15）……………………………………39

Table 3. 3 Distribution of 82 Examples with Pollyanna Principle and Prosodic Principle……………………………………39

Table 4. 1　5 Complementary Concept Pairs for Chinese Experiment in Discourse…………………………………………………………………………60

Table 4. 2　12 Antonym Concept Pairs for Chinese Experiment in Discourse61

Table 4. 3　5 Converse Concept Pairs for Chinese Experiment in Discourse61

Table 4. 4 Chinese Translation of English Syntactic Frames Used in Jones（2002）…………………………………………………………………………64

Table 4. 5 Syntactic Frames Used in Chinese Experiment in Discourse66

Table 4. 6 Dominance Score of Individual Pairings in Case of Strong：Weak82

Table 4. 7 Dominance Score of Individual Pairings in Receive：Give83

Table 4. 8 Top 5 Canonical Pairings in 22 Conceptual Opposite Groups84

Table 5. 1 Negation Frames……………………………………94

Table 5. 2 Comparison of Two Candidate Lists in Experiments of Opposite Discourse Function and Negation94