| Chapter 1 Theoretical Background | 第1-23页 |
| ·General Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics | 第8-11页 |
| ·Definition | 第8-9页 |
| ·Philosophical Foundation | 第9-11页 |
| ·The Basic Notions for the Analysis of Spatial Words | 第11-23页 |
| ·Image Schema | 第11-19页 |
| ·Definition and Basic Characteristics | 第12-17页 |
| ·Image Schema Transformations | 第17-19页 |
| ·Metaphorical Projection or Mapping | 第19-23页 |
| ·The Principle of Mapping | 第19-23页 |
| Chapter 2 Spatial Prepositions and Polysemy | 第23-28页 |
| ·Spatial Preposition | 第23-25页 |
| ·A Brief Summary of the Traditional Research in Spatial Conception | 第23-24页 |
| ·Space perception and spatial relationships in cognitive psychology | 第24-25页 |
| ·Spatial relationship and trajector/landmark | 第25页 |
| ·Polysemy | 第25-28页 |
| ·The Definition of Polysemy | 第25-26页 |
| ·Polysemy in cognitive linguistics | 第26-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Comparative Analysis of Spatial Prepositions in English and Chinese | 第28-58页 |
| ·The Analysis of UP | 第29-39页 |
| ·The Spatial Meanings | 第29-32页 |
| ·The Upward Sense | 第29-30页 |
| ·the Toward Sense | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Above Sense | 第31页 |
| ·The End Sense | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Metaphorical Extension | 第32-39页 |
| ·The Meanings Extended from Upward Sense | 第32-36页 |
| ·The Meaning Extended from Toward Sense | 第36-37页 |
| ·Meanings Extended from the Above Sense | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Meaning Extended from the End Sense | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Analysis of Down | 第39-46页 |
| ·The Spatial Meanings | 第39-41页 |
| ·The Downward sense | 第39-40页 |
| ·the Below Sense | 第40-41页 |
| ·The Metaphorical Extension | 第41-46页 |
| ·Mapping from Space Domain to Quantity Domain | 第41-42页 |
| ·Mapping from Space Domain to Social Domain | 第42-43页 |
| ·Mapping from Space Domain to State Domain | 第43-46页 |
| ·The Comparison between English UP/DOWN and Chinese SHANG/XIA | 第46-58页 |
| ·The Comparison in Spatial Meanings | 第46-50页 |
| ·SHANG Expresses Above in Position; XIA Expresses Below in Position | 第46-48页 |
| ·SHANG Expresses Upward Movement; XIA Expresses Downward Movement | 第48-50页 |
| ·The Comparison in Metaphorical Extension | 第50-58页 |
| ·SHANG Expresses Increase/More in Quantity; XIA Expresses Decrease/Less in Quantity | 第50-51页 |
| ·SHANG Expresses in (to) Good State; XIA Expresses in (to) Bad State | 第51-52页 |
| ·SHANG Expresses in (to) Higher Status/Rank; XIA Expresses in (to) Lower Status/Rank | 第52-54页 |
| ·SHANG Refers to North; XIA Refers to South | 第54-55页 |
| ·SHANG Refers to Earlier time; XIA Refers to Later Time | 第55-58页 |
| Chapter 4 Conclusion | 第58-61页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第58-59页 |
| ·Enlightenment of such an approach to vocabulary teaching and learning | 第59-60页 |
| ·Problems unsolved and further work | 第60-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-64页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第64页 |
