| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第9-14页 |
| Chapter 1 General Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Purposes and Significance of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Research Approaches | 第15-16页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第16页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第18-26页 |
| ·Definitions Involved in This Study | 第18-20页 |
| ·News Headlines | 第18-19页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor | 第19-20页 |
| ·Cognitive Mechanism | 第20页 |
| ·Research on Metaphor Abroad | 第20-22页 |
| ·Traditional View on Metaphor Abroad | 第20-21页 |
| ·Cognitive View on Metaphor | 第21-22页 |
| ·Research on Metaphor in China | 第22-24页 |
| ·Research on Conceptual Metaphor in News Headlines both at Home and Abroad | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第26-35页 |
| ·Introduction to Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第26-27页 |
| ·Main Features of Conceptual Metaphor | 第27-28页 |
| ·Classification of Conceptual Metaphor | 第28-30页 |
| ·Orientation Metaphors | 第28-29页 |
| ·Ontological Metaphors | 第29页 |
| ·Structural Metaphors | 第29-30页 |
| ·Cognitive Mechanism of Conceptual Metaphor | 第30-33页 |
| ·Main Components of Cognitive Mechanism | 第30-31页 |
| ·Cognitive Features of Conceptual Metaphors | 第31-32页 |
| ·Mapping Process of Conceptual Metaphor | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Relationship between Conceptual Metaphor and News Headlines | 第33-35页 |
| ·The Co-existence Relationship between Conceptual Metaphor and News Headlines | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Enlightenment to the Study of News Headlines from Cognitive View on Metaphor | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter 4 Comparison of Cognitive Mechanism of Conceptual Metaphors in Chinese and English News Headlines | 第35-60页 |
| ·Comparison of the Basic Elements of Cognitive Mechanism of Conceptual Metaphors in Chinese and English News Headlines | 第35-44页 |
| ·Comparison of the Source Domain Concepts that Mapped onto the Target Domain in Chinese and English News Headlines | 第35-43页 |
| ·Comparison of the Frequency of Source Domain Concepts | 第43-44页 |
| ·Comparison of the Mapping Process in Chinese and English Metaphorical News Headlines | 第44-52页 |
| ·Similarities | 第45-50页 |
| ·Differences | 第50-52页 |
| ·Comparison of the Linguistic Representations of Cognitive Mechanism of Metaphorical Chinese and English News Headlines | 第52-60页 |
| ·Similarities | 第52-55页 |
| ·Differences | 第55-60页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第60-63页 |
| ·Findings | 第60-61页 |
| ·Implications | 第61-62页 |
| ·Limitations | 第62-63页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第63-65页 |
| PAPERS PUBLISHED DURING M.A. STUDY | 第65页 |
