| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| 0.1 Backound of the Research | 第11-12页 |
| 0.2 Aims of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| 0.3 Research Methods of the Thesis | 第13页 |
| 0.4 The Structure of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第15-27页 |
| 1.1 Traditional Studies on Polysemy | 第15-18页 |
| 1.2 Cogntive Semantical Studies on Polysemy | 第18-23页 |
| 1.3 Previous Study on Space-dimensional Adjective Shen | 第23-27页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Frameworks | 第27-39页 |
| 2.1 Prototype Category | 第27-30页 |
| 2.1.1 The Role of Categorization | 第27-28页 |
| 2.1.2 Prototype Category | 第28-29页 |
| 2.1.3 Prototype Category and Word Senses | 第29-30页 |
| 2.2 Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第30-33页 |
| 2.2.1 The Definition of Conceptual Metaphor | 第30-32页 |
| 2.2.2 The Working Mechanism of the Conceptual Metaphor | 第32-33页 |
| 2.3 Conceputal Metonymy Theory | 第33-39页 |
| 2.3.1 The Definition of Conceptual Metonymy | 第34-35页 |
| 2.3.2 The Working Mechanism of the Conceptual Metonymy | 第35-39页 |
| Chapter Three The Meanings and Semantic Network of Shen | 第39-51页 |
| 3.1 Prototypical meanings of Shen | 第39-44页 |
| 3.2 The non-ototypical meanings of Shen | 第44-46页 |
| 3.3 Semantic Network of shen | 第46-51页 |
| Chapter Four The Sense Extension Mechanism for Shen | 第51-69页 |
| 4.1 Metonymy Mechanism for Sense Extension | 第51-59页 |
| 4.2 Metaphor Mechanism for Sense Extension | 第59-69页 |
| 4.2.1 The Space-dimensional Domain Mapping into the TimeDomain | 第59-61页 |
| 4.2.2 The Space-dimensional Domain Mapping into the ColorDomain | 第61-64页 |
| 4.2.3 The Space-dimensional Domain Mapping into the soundDomain | 第64-69页 |
| Conclusion | 第69-73页 |
| Bibliography | 第73-77页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第77-79页 |
