| Chapter One Introduction1 | 第1-13页 |
| ·Preamble | 第10-11页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two Previous Works on Metonymy | 第13-22页 |
| ·Traditional Rhetorical View of Metonymy | 第13-15页 |
| ·Pragmatic View of Metonymy | 第15-16页 |
| ·Cognitive View of Metonymy | 第16-19页 |
| ·Difference between Metonymy and Metaphor | 第19-22页 |
| Chapter Three Cognitive Mechanism of Metonymy | 第22-40页 |
| ·Perceptual Salience | 第22-24页 |
| ·Domain Highlighting | 第24-26页 |
| ·Operating within the Same Idealized Cognitive Model | 第26-40页 |
| ·Whole ICM and Its Parts | 第29-35页 |
| ·Parts of an ICM | 第35-40页 |
| Chapter Four Metonymy as a Cognitive Inference Approach | 第40-55页 |
| ·A Classification of Metonymy | 第40-42页 |
| ·Speech Act Metonymy | 第42-55页 |
| ·Speech Act Theory | 第42-44页 |
| ·A Scenario Approach to Metonymy | 第44-46页 |
| ·A Taxonomy of Speech Act Metonymy | 第46-48页 |
| ·Strength of Metonymic Link and Pragmatic Inference | 第48-55页 |
| Chapter Five Relevance-Theoretic Treatment of Metonymy | 第55-63页 |
| ·Relevance Theory Reviewed | 第55-57页 |
| ·Comprehension of Metonymy under the RT Framework | 第57-63页 |
| ·Metonymy for Minimal Processing Efforts | 第57-59页 |
| ·Metonymy for Maximal Contextual Effects | 第59-63页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第63-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-69页 |
