| Chinese Abstract | 第1-3页 |
| English Abstract | 第3-7页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 2 A General Survey of the History of Metaphor | 第10-20页 |
| ·The Traditional View | 第10-13页 |
| ·Aristotle and his comparison theory | 第10-12页 |
| ·Quintillion and his substitution theory | 第12-13页 |
| ·A summary of the traditional view of metaphor | 第13页 |
| ·The Interaction Theory | 第13-20页 |
| ·Richards' view on metaphor | 第13-14页 |
| ·Black's view on metaphor | 第14-16页 |
| ·Working mechanism of the interaction theory | 第16-17页 |
| ·Weaknesses of the interaction theory | 第17-20页 |
| Chapter 3 The Philosophical Foundation of Metaphor | 第20-27页 |
| ·Objectivism:philosophical basis of the traditional view | 第20-22页 |
| ·Experientialism:philosophical basis of conceptual metaphor theory | 第22-27页 |
| Chapter 4 The Cognitive View of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Its Cognitive Force | 第27-60页 |
| ·The cognitive view of metaphor | 第27-29页 |
| ·Conceptual metaphor and the classification of conceptual metaphor | 第29-41页 |
| ·Conceptual metaphor and its cognitive force | 第41-60页 |
| ·The working mechanism of metaphor:Mapping | 第46-51页 |
| ·The nature of metaphor:image schema | 第51-60页 |
| Chapter 5 Blending Theory and its Cognitive Force | 第60-70页 |
| ·Mental Spaces Theory | 第61-62页 |
| ·Components of Blending Theory | 第62-68页 |
| ·Input spaces | 第63-66页 |
| ·Generic space | 第66页 |
| ·Blended space | 第66-68页 |
| ·The cognitive force of BT | 第68-70页 |
| Chapter 6 The Cognitive Force of Metaphor and English Language Learning | 第70-99页 |
| ·Metaphor and vocabulary | 第70-88页 |
| ·Learning polysemy | 第71-78页 |
| ·Learning idioms | 第78-88页 |
| ·Metaphor and writing | 第88-92页 |
| ·Metaphor and culture | 第92-99页 |
| chapter 7 Conclusion | 第99-101页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第101-102页 |
| Bibliography | 第102-107页 |
| 独创性声明 | 第107页 |
| 学位论文版权使用授权书 | 第107-108页 |
| 中文详细摘要 | 第108-124页 |
