| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Chinese outline | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter 1 A Survey of the studies on grammatical metaphor | 第11-24页 |
| 1．1 Halliday and the Grammatical metaphor theory | 第11-16页 |
| 1．1．1 Halliday's initial treatment of grammatical metaphor | 第11-13页 |
| 1．1．2 Halliday's new ideas on grammatical metaphor | 第13-16页 |
| 1．2 Previous studies done on grammatical metaphor | 第16-20页 |
| 1．2．1 Martin's view of grammatical metaphor | 第16-17页 |
| 1．2．2 Goatly and his understanding of grammatical metaphor | 第17-19页 |
| 1．2．3 Thompson and grammatical metaphor | 第19-20页 |
| 1．3 Studies and improvement made by some Chinese scholars on grammatical metaphor | 第20-22页 |
| 1．3．1 Hu Zhuanglin's insightful view of grammatical metaphor | 第20-21页 |
| 1．3．2 Zhu Yongsheng and Yan Shiqing's ideas on grammatical metaphor | 第21-22页 |
| 1．3．3 Fan Wenfang's contribution to the study of grammatical metaphor | 第22页 |
| 1．4 Summary | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter 2 Ideational metaphor | 第24-35页 |
| 2．1 Introduction | 第24页 |
| 2．2 Language as a system | 第24-26页 |
| 2．3 Congruent and metaphorical | 第26-28页 |
| 2．4 Generation of ideational metaphor | 第28-33页 |
| 2．4．1 Transference between processes | 第30-32页 |
| 2．4．2 Transference of semantic functions of sentence elements | 第32页 |
| 2．4．3 Nominalization | 第32-33页 |
| 2．5 Summary | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter 3 Interpersonal metaphor | 第35-51页 |
| 3．1 Introduction | 第35-36页 |
| 3．2 Mood systems and speech functions | 第36-37页 |
| 3．3 Incongruent realization of speech functions of mood types | 第37-40页 |
| 3．3．1 Transference from one sub-domain to another | 第38-39页 |
| 3．3．2 Transference between sub-domains of mood | 第39-40页 |
| 3．4 Metaphors of mood and indirect speech act | 第40-42页 |
| 3．5 Modality | 第42-47页 |
| 3．5．1 Types of modality | 第42-44页 |
| 3．5．2 Traditional study of modality and typical realization of modality | 第44-46页 |
| 3．5．3 Metaphors of modality and orientations in modality | 第46-47页 |
| 3．6 Generation of metaphors of modality | 第47-50页 |
| 3．6．1 Clauses representing modality | 第47-48页 |
| 3．6．2 Nominalization | 第48-50页 |
| 3．7 Interpersonal metaphor and humorous language | 第50页 |
| 3．8 Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter 4 Textual metaphor | 第51-62页 |
| 4．1 Text and textual function | 第51-52页 |
| 4．2 Textual metaphor | 第52-53页 |
| 4．3 Different ways of metaphorical realizations of text | 第53-60页 |
| 4．3．1 Nouns used to organize text | 第54页 |
| 4．3．2 Reference used to organize text | 第54页 |
| 4．3．3 Non-finite verbal group used to organize text | 第54-55页 |
| 4．3．4 Process used to organize text | 第55页 |
| 4．3．5 Mood used to organize text | 第55-56页 |
| 4．3．6 Metaphorical themes and metaphorical news | 第56-57页 |
| 4．3．7 Nominalization | 第57-60页 |
| 4．4 A few remarks on the study of textual metaphor | 第60-62页 |
| Chapter 5 Summary and conclusion | 第62-67页 |
| 5．1 A few remarks about grammatical metaphor | 第62-64页 |
| 5．2 Implications to the teaching and learning of English language | 第64-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-69页 |
