| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-14页 |
| ·Why Newspaper Headlines and Metaphorization? | 第8-9页 |
| ·What to deal with in this thesis? | 第9-12页 |
| ·How to deal with the problems? | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review for My Corpus-based Research | 第14-24页 |
| ·General Situation in the Study of Newspaper Headlines | 第14-17页 |
| ·Review on Metaphor Study---Towards a Criterion for Identifying Metaphor | 第17-22页 |
| ·Overview of Theoretical Bases for the Corpus Study and Further Analyses | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology and Corpus Construction | 第24-36页 |
| ·Advantage and Disadvantage of the Corpus-based Approach | 第24-26页 |
| ·Corpus Construction---Entry Rule for the Newspaper Headline | 第26-29页 |
| ·Findings of the Quantitative Research---Identification of Metaphorization | 第29-33页 |
| ·Achieving Objectivity in the Corpus Study---Treating Three Issues | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter 4 Metaphorization in English Newspaper Headlines | 第36-54页 |
| ·Functions of Newspaper Headlines --- Understanding their Nature | 第36-38页 |
| ·Speech Act Mode for Newspaper Headlines | 第38-42页 |
| ·Origin of the Speech Act Mode | 第38-40页 |
| ·Speech Act in Newspaper Headlines | 第40-41页 |
| ·Speech Act Mode in Studying Newspaper Headlines | 第41-42页 |
| ·Relevance Theory and Metaphorization in Newspaper Headlines | 第42-48页 |
| ·Key Concepts in Relevance Theory | 第42-44页 |
| ·Relevance Theory and Metaphor | 第44-46页 |
| ·Processing Metaphor in Communication | 第46-48页 |
| ·Towards a Model of Metaphorization in Newspaper Headlines | 第48-54页 |
| ·Foundations for Model Construction | 第48-50页 |
| ·Model of Metaphorization in Newspaper Headlines | 第50-52页 |
| ·Some Clarifications on the Model | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter 5 Application of the Model to Corpus Findings | 第54-71页 |
| ·Explanation of Frequent Metaphor Application in Newspaper Headlines | 第54-64页 |
| ·Reasons for the Outstanding Phenomenon | 第54-58页 |
| ·Operation of Metaphor in Newspaper Headlines | 第58-62页 |
| ·Metaphor and Effort | 第62-64页 |
| ·Explanation of Different Metaphor Frequencies in Newspaper Sections | 第64-66页 |
| ·Explanation of Less Application of Metaphor in Headlines from China Daily | 第66-71页 |
| ·Further Analyses of the Corpus Finding | 第66-67页 |
| ·Explanation of the Gap | 第67-69页 |
| ·Learning from the Gap | 第69-71页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第71-76页 |
| ·A Brief Account of the Study | 第71-72页 |
| ·Achievements and Significance of the Study | 第72-73页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study and Further Development | 第73-76页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第73-74页 |
| ·Further Development | 第74-76页 |
| Bibliography | 第76-78页 |
| Appendix | 第78-97页 |
