| Table of Contents | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Relevant Literature Review | 第14-29页 |
| ·A historical retrospect of the studies in foreign language teaching | 第14-20页 |
| ·Foreign language teaching in the West | 第14-18页 |
| ·Foreign language teaching in China | 第18-20页 |
| ·A historical retrospect of the studies on metaphor | 第20-26页 |
| ·The traditional view | 第21-22页 |
| ·The contemporary view | 第22-26页 |
| ·Historical background | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Interaction Theory | 第24-25页 |
| ·The cognitive view | 第25-26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Discussions on Metaphor and Foreign Language Teaching | 第29-54页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第29-41页 |
| ·The definition of metaphor | 第29-30页 |
| ·Conceptual metaphor and linguistic metaphor | 第30页 |
| ·The classification of conceptual metaphor | 第30-34页 |
| ·Structural metaphor | 第31页 |
| ·Ontological metaphor | 第31-32页 |
| ·Orientational metaphor | 第32-34页 |
| ·The characteristics of conceptual metaphor | 第34-38页 |
| ·Similarity of conceptual metaphor | 第34-35页 |
| ·Systematicity of conceptual metaphor | 第35-36页 |
| ·Cultural coherence of conceptual metaphor | 第36-38页 |
| ·The functions of conceptual metaphor | 第38-41页 |
| ·Conceptual metaphor as a way of human cognizing the world | 第39页 |
| ·Conceptual metaphor as a way of human thinking and acting | 第39-40页 |
| ·Conceptual metaphor as a way of human developing language | 第40-41页 |
| ·Metaphor and foreign language teaching | 第41-54页 |
| ·Conceptual metaphor and foreign language teaching | 第41-48页 |
| ·Structural metaphor and foreign language teaching | 第42-44页 |
| ·Ontological metaphor and foreign language teaching | 第44-46页 |
| ·Orientational metaphor and foreign language teaching | 第46-48页 |
| ·Conceptual metaphor and conceptual fluency in foreign language | 第48-49页 |
| ·Metaphorical competence | 第49-54页 |
| ·What metaphorical competence is | 第49-50页 |
| ·Relevant study on metaphorical competence | 第50-52页 |
| ·Implications from the study on metaphorical competence | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter 3 A Survey on Chinese Students’Metaphorical Competence of Foreign Language | 第54-72页 |
| ·Methodology | 第54-59页 |
| ·Research objective | 第54页 |
| ·Subjects | 第54-55页 |
| ·Instruments | 第55页 |
| ·The design of questionnaire and textual translation | 第55页 |
| ·Data collection | 第55-56页 |
| ·Date analysis | 第56-57页 |
| ·The reliability and validity | 第57-58页 |
| ·The limitations | 第58-59页 |
| ·The results | 第59-69页 |
| ·The results from the questionnaire on lexical level | 第59-62页 |
| ·The results from the four-choice answer on lexical level | 第59-61页 |
| ·The results from the explanations on lexical level | 第61-62页 |
| ·The results from the textual translation on grammatical and discourse levels | 第62-69页 |
| ·The results from the textual translation on grammatical level | 第62-67页 |
| ·The results from the textual translation on discourse level | 第67-69页 |
| ·The analysis | 第69-70页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第70-72页 |
| Chapter 4 Towards a Metaphorical Foreign Language Teaching | 第72-82页 |
| ·The theory of metaphorical foreign language teaching | 第73页 |
| ·The aim of metaphorical foreign language teaching | 第73页 |
| ·The principle of metaphorical foreign language teaching | 第73-74页 |
| ·The approach of metaphorical foreign language teaching | 第74-77页 |
| ·To teach metaphors | 第74-75页 |
| ·To teach metaphorically | 第75-77页 |
| ·The testing of metaphorical foreign language teaching | 第77-79页 |
| ·The advantages and limitations of metaphorical foreign language teaching | 第79-82页 |
| Conclusion | 第82-84页 |
| Appendix | 第84-89页 |
| Bibliography | 第89-92页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第92-93页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文目录 | 第93页 |
