| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第17-37页 |
| ·Aristotle's definition of metaphor and its influence | 第17-18页 |
| ·Interactionist research on metaphor | 第18-19页 |
| ·The cognitive approach to metaphor | 第19-25页 |
| ·The cognitive view on metaphor and its internal structure | 第19-23页 |
| ·Philosophy grounding of cognitive approach | 第23-25页 |
| ·Spatial metaphor and image schema | 第25-35页 |
| ·Lakoff's classification of metaphors and the spatial metaphor | 第25-27页 |
| ·Image schema | 第27-30页 |
| ·Other metaphor studies adopting cognitive approach | 第30-35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter 2 Research Methodology | 第37-47页 |
| ·Fundamental concepts and research questions | 第37-41页 |
| ·Spatial concept of preposition "at","on",and "in" | 第37-40页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第40-41页 |
| ·The corpus used | 第41页 |
| ·Data collection and classification | 第41-47页 |
| ·Data collection | 第41-43页 |
| ·Data classification | 第43-47页 |
| Chapter 3 Results and Discussion | 第47-78页 |
| ·The general picture of all instances with "at","on" and "in" | 第47-49页 |
| ·The general picture of "at" | 第49-50页 |
| ·The general picture of "on" | 第50-51页 |
| ·The general picture of "in" | 第51-53页 |
| ·The general comparison of distributions of metaphorical extensions of "in","on","at" in different target domains | 第53-56页 |
| ·The six target domains of the metaphorical extensions | 第56-78页 |
| ·Situation as the target domain | 第56-63页 |
| ·State as the sub-domain | 第58-60页 |
| ·Environment as the sub-domain | 第60-61页 |
| ·Transferred space as the sub-domain | 第61-63页 |
| ·Process as the sub-domain | 第63页 |
| ·Manner as the target domain | 第63-67页 |
| ·Means as the sub-domain | 第64-66页 |
| ·Dependence as the sub-domain | 第66-67页 |
| ·Target as the target domain | 第67-70页 |
| ·Field as the sub-domain | 第68-69页 |
| ·Object as the sub-domain | 第69-70页 |
| ·Time as the target domain | 第70-72页 |
| ·Logical relation as the target domain | 第72-76页 |
| ·Reason as the sub-domain | 第73-74页 |
| ·Purpose as the sub-domain | 第74-75页 |
| ·Consequence as the sub-domain | 第75页 |
| ·Basis as the sub-domain | 第75-76页 |
| ·Social relationship as the target domain | 第76-78页 |
| Conclusion | 第78-84页 |
| Notes | 第84-86页 |
| Bibliography | 第86-93页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第93-95页 |
| 攻读学位期间主要的研究成果目录 | 第95页 |
