| Acknowledgements | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10-11页 |
| List of Tables | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| 1.1 Preliminaries | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 The Rationale of the Present Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| 1.3 Purposes of the Present Thesis | 第14页 |
| 1.4 The Layout of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two The Study of Metaphor:A Literature Review | 第16-31页 |
| 2.1 A Survey of Contemporary Metaphor Studies | 第16-18页 |
| 2.2 Classification of Metaphor Studies in the West | 第18-27页 |
| 2.2.1 Aristotle's Rhetorical View | 第18-20页 |
| 2.2.2 Substitution Theory | 第20页 |
| 2.2.3 Comparison Theory | 第20-21页 |
| 2.2.4 Interaction Theory | 第21-23页 |
| 2.2.5 Conceptual Metaphor Theory(CMT) | 第23-24页 |
| 2.2.6 Conceptual Integration Network Model(CINM) | 第24-27页 |
| 2.3 Classification of Metaphor Studies in China | 第27-29页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第31-39页 |
| 3.1 The Working Definition of Metaphor for the Present Study | 第31-32页 |
| 3.2 The Working Definition of Coherence for the Present Study | 第32-33页 |
| 3.3 The Definition of News Discourse and Its General Features | 第33-34页 |
| 3.4 An Analytic Framework for the Present Study | 第34-38页 |
| 3.5 Summary | 第38-39页 |
| Chapter Four Research Design | 第39-45页 |
| 4.1 A Comparison of People's Daily and the International Herald Tribune(IHT) | 第39-42页 |
| 4.1.1 Features of People's Daily | 第39-40页 |
| 4.1.2 Features of the IHT | 第40页 |
| 4.1.3 The Comparability of People's Daily and the IHT in the Data | 第40-42页 |
| 4.2 The Validity of the Data | 第42页 |
| 4.3 Data Collection and Analysis | 第42-44页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第44-45页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Discussion | 第45-75页 |
| 5.1 An Overview of Metaphor and Coherence in the Preparation Reports | 第45-51页 |
| 5.1.1 BEIJING IS A PERSON | 第46-48页 |
| 5.1.2 THE OLYMPICS IS A PERSON | 第48-49页 |
| 5.1.3 BOCOG IS A PERSON | 第49-50页 |
| 5.1.4 BEIJING 2008 IS A FAMILY REUNION | 第50-51页 |
| 5.2 Sample Analysis:A Comparative Study | 第51-73页 |
| 5.2.1 Chinese Sample Analysis | 第52-62页 |
| 5.2.2 English Sample Analysis | 第62-72页 |
| 5.2.3 A Comparative Analysis | 第72-73页 |
| 5.3 Functions of Metaphor and Its Coherent Models | 第73-74页 |
| 5.4 Summary | 第74-75页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第75-77页 |
| 6.1 Summary | 第75页 |
| 6.2 Implications | 第75-76页 |
| 6.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study | 第76-77页 |
| Bibliography | 第77-82页 |
| Appendices | 第82-87页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Sample Headlines | 第82-83页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Sample Reports | 第83-87页 |
| A Chinese Sample Report | 第83-84页 |
| An English Sample Report | 第84-87页 |
| 攻读学位期间发表的学术论文 | 第87-88页 |
