| ABSTRACT | 第1-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第9-15页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第15-19页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第19-40页 |
| ·A Critical Survey of Historical Metaphor Studies | 第19-22页 |
| ·The Aristotelian approach:metaphor as a transference of names | 第20页 |
| ·The pragmatic approach:metaphor as a special speech act | 第20-22页 |
| ·The interactionist approach:metaphor as an interaction | 第22页 |
| ·Cognitive Linguistic Paradigm | 第22-26页 |
| ·The theory of prototypes and basic-level categories | 第23-24页 |
| ·Philosophical basis of cognitive linguistics:experiential realism | 第24-26页 |
| ·A Cognitive Approach to Metaphor | 第26-40页 |
| ·The conceptual nature and characteristics of metaphor | 第26-28页 |
| ·The conceptual nature of metaphor | 第26-27页 |
| ·Characteristics of metaphor | 第27-28页 |
| ·Cultural coherence of conceptual metaphor | 第28页 |
| ·The internal structure of metaphor:mapping across domains | 第28-31页 |
| ·The classification of metaphor | 第31-32页 |
| ·Historical studies of metaphor adopting the cognitive approach | 第32-33页 |
| ·Space,image schemas,and CONTAINER metaphor | 第33-36页 |
| ·The primacy of space | 第33页 |
| ·Image schemas | 第33-35页 |
| ·CONTAINER metaphor | 第35-36页 |
| ·Recent studies of CONTAINER metaphor | 第36-37页 |
| ·Research issues:IN,OUT,LI and WAI as image-schematic concepts | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Three RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第40-44页 |
| ·From Concept to Word | 第40页 |
| ·The Dictionary-based Approach and the Corpus-based Approach for Data-collection | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter Four RESULTS AND DISCUSSION:SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND CHINESE IN CONTAINER METAPHORS | 第44-82页 |
| ·Quantitative Analysis | 第44-48页 |
| ·Qualitative Analysis | 第48-79页 |
| ·Bodily experiences of CONTAINER metaphor | 第48-52页 |
| ·Physiological phenomena and functions as containers | 第52-64页 |
| ·Visual fields as containers | 第53-54页 |
| ·Colors as containers | 第54-55页 |
| ·Emotions as containers | 第55-61页 |
| ·Linguistic expressions as containers | 第61-62页 |
| ·Other physiological phenomena and functions as containers | 第62-64页 |
| ·Spatial containers | 第64-68页 |
| ·Sound in nature as container | 第66-67页 |
| ·Illumination and shade or shadow as container | 第67-68页 |
| ·Other entities as containers | 第68页 |
| ·Metaphorical extensions of spatial container | 第68-79页 |
| ·Events or activities as containers | 第69-71页 |
| ·States as containers | 第71-74页 |
| ·Time as container | 第74-76页 |
| ·Quantity as container | 第76-77页 |
| ·Social status as container | 第77-79页 |
| ·Summary | 第79-82页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第82-86页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第86-91页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅰ FREQUENCY OF WORDS IN THE CORPUS | 第91-92页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅱ INTRODUCTION OF THE CORPORA | 第92-93页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅲ PART OF THE CHINESE CORPUS | 第93-101页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅳ PART OF THE ENGLISH CORPUS | 第101-107页 |
