| Abstract | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| ·Selection of the topic | 第9页 |
| ·The aims of the present study | 第9-10页 |
| ·The research methodology and significance of the study | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter Two Cultural connotation of Chinese and English words | 第11-18页 |
| ·Culture, language and the relationship between them | 第11-14页 |
| ·The definition of culture and language | 第11-13页 |
| ·Relationship between culture and language | 第13-14页 |
| ·Definition of Culture-loaded Terms | 第14-15页 |
| ·Definition of cultural connotation | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter Three Literature review | 第18-31页 |
| ·Previous studies of metaphor | 第18-22页 |
| ·An overview of metaphor study | 第18-20页 |
| ·Study on Conceptual metaphor’s linguistic functions | 第20-22页 |
| ·Studies on word meaning and culture-loaded words | 第22-31页 |
| ·Study on Word Meaning | 第22-27页 |
| ·Meaning as sign | 第22-23页 |
| ·Meaning beyond sign | 第23-27页 |
| ·Previous studies of culture-loaded words | 第27-29页 |
| ·Previous studies of culture-loaded plant words | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Four Theoretical framework——Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第31-36页 |
| ·Definition | 第31-32页 |
| ·Philosophical Basis of Conceptual Metaphor Theory: Experientialism | 第32-34页 |
| ·Mechanism: Cross-domain Mapping | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Five Research design | 第36-53页 |
| ·Research questions to be investigated | 第36页 |
| ·Research procedures | 第36-41页 |
| ·Data collection | 第36页 |
| ·The analysis on Chinese and English culture-loaded plant words | 第36-41页 |
| ·Plant words with the same or similar cultural connotation | 第38-39页 |
| ·Plant words with the partially corresponding cultural connotation | 第39-40页 |
| ·Plant words with widely divergent cultural connotation | 第40页 |
| ·Plant words with completely different cultural connotation | 第40页 |
| ·Plant words with cultural connotation only in one language | 第40-41页 |
| ·The construction of the plant terms’cultural connotation | 第41-53页 |
| ·The cognitive process of the construction of plant words’cultural connotation | 第41-46页 |
| ·The social cultural elements of the emergence of plant words’cultural connotation | 第46-50页 |
| ·The framework of the emergence of plant words’cultural connotation based on the above factors | 第50-53页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第53-55页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第53-54页 |
| ·Limitation of the present study | 第54-55页 |
| References | 第55-59页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第59页 |
