| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-9页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第9-10页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第10-11页 |
| CONTENTS | 第11-14页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第14-15页 |
| LIST OF FIGURES | 第15-16页 |
| CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION | 第16-21页 |
| ·The Research Background | 第16-18页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Research Questions | 第19页 |
| ·The Structure of the Thesis | 第19-21页 |
| CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW | 第21-33页 |
| ·Metaphor Theories | 第21-26页 |
| ·Comparison Theory and Substitution Theory | 第22-23页 |
| ·Interaction Theory and Conceptual Theory | 第23-26页 |
| ·Contemporary Studies on Metaphor | 第26页 |
| ·The Human Body Parts and Body Metaphors | 第26-28页 |
| ·Views of Idioms | 第28-32页 |
| ·The Arbitrary View of Idioms | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Compositional View of Idioms | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Cognitive View of Idioms | 第31-32页 |
| ·Summary | 第32-33页 |
| CHAPTER III THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第33-42页 |
| ·The Human Body-Part Words | 第33-35页 |
| ·Embodied Experience as the Philosophical Basis for Body Metaphor | 第35-37页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor as the Theoretical Basis for Body Metaphor | 第37-41页 |
| ·The Cognitive Nature of Metaphor | 第37页 |
| ·Working Mechanism of Metaphor: Cross-Domain Mapping | 第37-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41-42页 |
| CHAPTER IV RESEARCH DATA COLLECTION AND DESCRIPTION | 第42-48页 |
| ·The Data | 第42-45页 |
| ·The Criteria for Classification | 第45-48页 |
| CHAPTER V MAPPING MODELS OF BODY METAPHORS | 第48-73页 |
| ·The Body as the Source Domain | 第48-53页 |
| ·Mapping from the Body Domain to the Concrete Non-body Domain | 第49-52页 |
| ·Mapping from the Body Domain to the Abstract Non-body Domain | 第52-53页 |
| ·The Body as the Target Domain | 第53-62页 |
| ·Mapping from the Space Domain to the Body Domain | 第53-55页 |
| ·Mapping from the Color Domain to the Body Domain | 第55-56页 |
| ·Mapping from the Number Domain to the Body Domain | 第56-58页 |
| ·Mapping from the Weather Domain to the Body Domain | 第58-59页 |
| ·Mapping from the Emotion Domain to the Body Domain | 第59-60页 |
| ·Mapping form the Material Domain to the Body Domain | 第60-61页 |
| ·Mapping from the Action Domain to the Body Domain | 第61-62页 |
| ·The Body as the Source and Target Domains | 第62-63页 |
| ·Mapping from the Relationship Between Different Body Parts to the Relationship Between Things or Persons | 第63-65页 |
| ·Metonymy in the Chinese Four-Character Idioms | 第65-67页 |
| ·The Functions of Body Metaphor in the Chinese Idioms | 第67-71页 |
| ·The Cognitive Function | 第67-70页 |
| ·The Linguistic Function | 第70-71页 |
| ·The Social-Cultural Function | 第71页 |
| ·Summary | 第71-73页 |
| CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION | 第73-77页 |
| ·Summary of the Study | 第73-74页 |
| ·Implications | 第74-75页 |
| ·Limitations and Further Study | 第75-77页 |
| REFERENCES | 第77-81页 |
| APPENDIX | 第81-91页 |
