Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Brief Introduction to Motivation 1.2 Theoretical Significance of This Study 1.3 Definition of Motivation 1.4 Classification of Motivation 1.5 Conceptual Characteristics of Motivation 1.6 Theoretical Framework of This Study Chapter Two Motivation-Arbitrariness and Iconicity 2.1 Arbitrariness and Motivation 2.1.1 Conceptual Connotation of Arbitrariness and Motivation 2.1.2 Relationship between Arbitrariness and Motivation 2.1.3 Summary 2.2 Our Opinion Chapter Three Phonological Motivations of English Lexis 3.1 Onomatopoeia Motivation 3.2 Phonaestheme Motivation 3.3 Reduplication Motivation 3.4 Phonological Shifting Motivation 3.5 The Change of Phonemes Motivation 3.6 Summary Chapter Four Morphological Motivations of New English Lexis 4.1 Pictographic Motivation 4.1.1 Pictographic Capital Letter and a Word 4.1.2 The Mixture of Pictograph and Meaning 4.1.3 Initial Pictographs 4.1.4 Recessive Pictographs 4.2 Word-formation Motivation 4.2.1 Mot xvations in Compounding 4.2.2 Motivations in Derivation 4.2.3 Motivations in Abbreviation 4.2.4 Motivations in Back-formation 4.2.5 Motivanons in Borrowing 4.2.6 Motivations in Coinage 4.2.7 Motivations in Some Letter Groups 4.3 Summary Chapter Five Semantic Motivations of New English Lexis 5.1 Political Motivation 5.1.1 Statesman Motivation 5.1.2 Scandal Motivation 5.1.3 Political Event Motivation 5.2 Social Problem Motivation 5.3 Environmental Motivation 5.4 New Lifestyle Motivation 5.4.1 Health Motivation 5.4.2 Leisure and Entertainment Motivation 5.5 New Product Motivation 5.6 Scientific and Technological Motivation 5.7 New Information Motivation 5.8 Summary Chapter Six Psychological Motivations of New English Lexis 6.1 Fashion Pursuing Tendencies of Mind 6.2 Elegance Seeking Tendencies of Mind 6.3 Diversity Requiring Tendencies of Mind 6.4 Summary Chapter Seven Etymological Motivations of New English Lexis 7.1 Etymology and Motivation 7.2 Motivatton of Words from Historical Events 7.3 Motivatlon of Words from Culture and Customs 7.4 Motivatlon of Words from Literature 7.5 Motivations of Words from Greek Gods 7.6 Motivatlons of Words from the Bible 7.7 Motivatxons of Words from Names of People and Places 7.8 Motivations of Borrowing Words 7.9 Summary Chapter Eight The L2 Mental Lexicon and Lexis Acquisition 8.1 The Notion of Mental Lexicon 8.2 The Internal Structure of the Lexical Entries 8.3 The Notion of Word Association(WA)Tests 8.4 Traditional Classifications of Association Responses 8.5 Organization of L1 Mental Lexicon 8.5.1 Phonological Network VS.Semantic Network 8.5.2 The Hierarchical Network Model 8.5.3 The Spreading Activation Model 8.5.4 The Extended Network Model 8.6 WA Tests in L2 Research 8.7 Organization of L2 Mental Lexicon 8.7.1 Phonological View 8.7.2 Semantic View 8.7.3 Syntactic View 8.8 Limitations of the Previous Researches 8.9 Experimental Research 8.9.1 Hypothesis 8.9.2 Participants 8.9.3 Materials 8.9.4 Classifications of Association Responses 8.9.5 Procedures 8.9.6 Results 8.9.7 Discussion 8.10 Implications for L2 Vocabulary Teaching 8.11 Conclusion Appendix Chapter Nine Lexis Acquisition in Multimedia Environment 9.1 Introduction to the Application of Vocabulary Motivation 9.2 Vocabulary Learning with CALL and CALT 9.3 Psychological and Multimedia Hardware and Software Foundation for Vocabulary Learning 9.3.1 Psychological Foundation 9.3.2 M1lltimedia HardWare and Software F011ndation 9.4 Vocabulary Learning Strategies in Multimedia Environment with Application of Vocabulary Motivation 9.4.1 CALT for VocabularyS Pronunciation,Morphology and Semantics 9.4.2 Context 9.4.3 Vocabulary Game 9.5 Computational Application of Vocabulary Acquisition in Multimedia Environment. 9.5.1 Concordance as the Basic Technology in Corpus Linguistics 9.5.2 Vocabulary Acquisition with Concordance 9.5.3 Acquisition of the Word hand by Concordance 9.5.4 Synonyms Acquisition with Concordance 9.5.5 Vocabulary Collocations 9.6 Applications and Implications for Vocabulary Acquisition Teaching Chapter Ten Conclusion。 10.1 On Motivation 10.1.1 On Motivations of English Lexis 10.1.2 On Phonological Motivations of New English Lexis 10.1.3 On Morphological Motivations of New English Lexis 10.1.4 On Semantic Motivations of New English Lexis 10.1.5 On Psychological Motivations of English Lexis 10.1.6 On Etymological Motivations of English Lexis 10.1.7 On L2 Mental Lexicon and Lexis Acquisition 10.1.8 On Lexical Motivations and Computer assisted Lexis Acquisition 10.2 Limitations of the Study 附錄1:詞典類文獻匯編 附錄2:英語詞匯學類文獻匯編 附錄3:語言符號任意性、理據(jù)性研究類文獻匯編 附錄4:詞源學類文獻匯編 附錄5:二語心理詞匯與詞匯習得文獻匯編 附錄6:計算機輔助語言教學類參考文獻匯編 Acknowledgement