| ABSTRACT | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| List of Tables | 第9-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10-11页 |
| Abbreviations | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-21页 |
| ·Introduction | 第15页 |
| ·Identifying verb metaphors | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research questions and hypotheses | 第16-17页 |
| ·Theoretical framework | 第17-19页 |
| ·Organization | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of the Theories of Metaphor | 第21-50页 |
| ·Introduction | 第21页 |
| ·Approaches to the study of metaphor | 第21-26页 |
| ·Metaphor study in the West | 第21-22页 |
| ·Metaphor study in China | 第22-24页 |
| ·Cognitive approaches to the study of metaphor | 第24-26页 |
| ·The theory of conceptual metaphor | 第26-29页 |
| ·Primary and complex metaphors | 第29-37页 |
| ·Primary metaphor | 第29-33页 |
| ·Complex metaphor | 第33-37页 |
| ·Cultural analysis of metaphor | 第37-48页 |
| ·The cultural embedding of metaphor | 第37-40页 |
| ·Cognitive functions relating metaphor and culture | 第40-43页 |
| ·Cross-linguistic evidences of culture in metaphorical conceptualization | 第43-48页 |
| ·Summary | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Three A Review of the Theories of Verb Typology | 第50-59页 |
| ·Verb analysis in language: a general review | 第50-54页 |
| ·Comrie’s analysis: state or dynamic representations of verbs | 第50页 |
| ·Talmy’s “force dynamics” of grammatical representation | 第50-51页 |
| ·Computational analysis of verbal dynamism | 第51-53页 |
| ·Regier’s connectionist model | 第53-54页 |
| ·Verb typology in English and Chinese | 第54-58页 |
| ·Morphological classification of verbs in English | 第54-55页 |
| ·Morphological classification of verbs in Chinese | 第55-56页 |
| ·Situational classification of verbs in English and Chinese | 第56-58页 |
| ·Summary | 第58-59页 |
| Chapter Four Research Design | 第59-66页 |
| ·Introduction | 第59-60页 |
| ·Data samplings | 第60-63页 |
| ·Procedures for data collection | 第63-64页 |
| ·Research questions | 第64-65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-66页 |
| Chapter Five Cognitive Analysis of VMEs in English and Chinese | 第66-112页 |
| ·Introduction | 第66页 |
| ·Metaphorical mapping processes in English and Chinese | 第66-86页 |
| ·Introduction | 第66-68页 |
| ·Data analyses of VMEs in English and Chinese | 第68-81页 |
| ·Evidence and motivations of unique VMEs in Chinese | 第81-85页 |
| ·Summary | 第85-86页 |
| ·Complex VMEs in English and Chinese | 第86-95页 |
| ·Introduction | 第86-87页 |
| ·Analysis of combination of basic mappings | 第87-95页 |
| ·Primary metaphors used to build complex metaphors | 第87-89页 |
| ·Complex metaphors and their motivations | 第89-93页 |
| ·Unique combinations of primary metaphors in English and Chinese | 第93-95页 |
| ·Event structure metaphor in English and Chinese | 第95-102页 |
| ·Introduction | 第95-96页 |
| ·Data analyses of event structure VMEs in English and Chinese | 第96-101页 |
| ·Summary | 第101-102页 |
| ·Evidence of different linguistic expressions of the same conceptual metaphor in English and Chinese | 第102-104页 |
| ·Metaphor and culture: an intertwined network | 第104-109页 |
| ·Metaphor and bodily experiences | 第106页 |
| ·Metaphor and cultural experience | 第106-107页 |
| ·Universality and variation in metaphor: an overall picture | 第107-109页 |
| ·Summary | 第109-112页 |
| Chapter Six Realizations of Lexicalization of VMEs in English and Chinese | 第112-146页 |
| ·Introduction | 第112-113页 |
| ·Formal analyses of VMEs in English and Chinese | 第113-143页 |
| ·Introduction | 第113-114页 |
| ·Overall results of types of verbs of metaphorical motion events | 第114-115页 |
| ·Encoding the MANNER dimension of a metaphorical motion event | 第115-124页 |
| ·Chinese lexical realziations of manner of motion in VMEs | 第118-124页 |
| ·Summary | 第124页 |
| ·Encoding the PATH dimension of a metaphorical motion event | 第124-141页 |
| ·Defining the five components of Path complex | 第125-131页 |
| ·Encoding PATH in the verb | 第131-135页 |
| ·Encoding PATH outside the verb | 第135-140页 |
| ·Summary | 第140-141页 |
| ·Encoding the GROUND dimension of a metaphorical motion event | 第141-143页 |
| ·Summary | 第143-146页 |
| Chapter Seven Typological Analysis of English and Chinese Verbs | 第146-155页 |
| ·Introduction | 第146页 |
| ·Macro-event, framing event and motion event | 第146-148页 |
| ·Linguistic experience and typological determinism | 第148-150页 |
| ·Typological similarities and differences between English and Chinese | 第150-154页 |
| ·Summary | 第154-155页 |
| Chapter Eight Conclusion | 第155-159页 |
| ·Major findings | 第155-156页 |
| ·Contributions | 第156页 |
| ·Significance and implications | 第156-158页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第158-159页 |
| References | 第159-170页 |
| Appendices | 第170-171页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第171-172页 |
| 在学期间公开发表论文及著作情况 | 第172页 |
