| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6页 |
| Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ. A Literature Review on Synaesthesia Study | 第12-17页 |
| 1.1 Synaesthesia as metaphor | 第12-17页 |
| 1.1.1 Synaesthesia as metaphor from the rhetorical perspective | 第12-14页 |
| 1.1.2 Synaesthesia as metaphor from the cognitive perspective | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ. The Cognitive Basis, Principle and Mechanisms of Synaesthetic Metaphor | 第17-35页 |
| 2.1 The cognitive basis-Bodily Experience | 第17-22页 |
| 2.1.1 Physical experience | 第18-20页 |
| 2.1.2 Neural experience | 第20-22页 |
| 2.1.3 Psychological experience | 第22页 |
| 2.2 The cognitive economy principle | 第22-23页 |
| 2.3 The cognitive mechanisms | 第23-35页 |
| 2.3.1 Basics for Metaphorization and Conceptual Blending | 第23-27页 |
| 2.3.1.1 Attributes, Prototype, family resemblance and fuzziness | 第24-25页 |
| 2.3.1.2 Gestalt (holistic perception) | 第25-26页 |
| 2.3.1.3 Cognitive frame or script and "activation" | 第26-27页 |
| 2.3.2 Metaphorization | 第27-28页 |
| 2.3.3 Conceptual Blending | 第28-35页 |
| 2.3.3.1 Mental Spaces Theory | 第29-30页 |
| 2.3.3.2 Principles of blending | 第30-33页 |
| 2.3.3.3 Processes of blending | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ. The Construction Process of Synaesthetic Metaphor (Part Ⅰ)-Cross-Domain Mappings among Five Sense Domains | 第35-49页 |
| 3.1 Cross domain mappings | 第35-46页 |
| 3.1.1 Touch domain → smell, taste, vision and hearing domains | 第36-38页 |
| 3.1.2 Taste, smell domain → touch, vision and hearing domains | 第38-41页 |
| 3.1.3 Vision domain → hearing, smell and touch domains | 第41-44页 |
| 3.1.4 Hearing domain → vision, touch and smell domains | 第44-46页 |
| 3.2 The Synaesthesia of the Synaesthesia and together perception of the five senses in one word | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ. The Construction Process of Synaesthetic Metaphor (Part Ⅱ) Conceptual Blending | 第49-59页 |
| 4.1 Soft voice (HEARING IS TOUCHING) | 第49-53页 |
| 4.2 "红杏枝头春意闹"(The red apricot branch traces of spring are "noisy ") (VISION IS HEARING) | 第53-55页 |
| 4.3 Sweet Thames! Run softly. (Prothalamion by E. Spencer) (Synaesthesia of Synaesthesia) | 第55-56页 |
| 4.4 The popularity of Synaesthetic metaphors in everyday language | 第56-59页 |
| Conclusion | 第59-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-65页 |
