| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·An Overview | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Objective and the Significance of This Thesis | 第12页 |
| ·The Organization of This Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Metaphor | 第14-25页 |
| ·Traditional Theories of Metaphor | 第14-17页 |
| ·The Comparison Theory | 第14页 |
| ·The Substitution Theory | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Interaction Theory | 第15-17页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor | 第17-24页 |
| ·The Philosophical Basis of Conceptual Metaphor | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Definition of Conceptual Metaphor | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Types of Conceptual Metaphor | 第19-21页 |
| ·Structural Metaphors | 第19-20页 |
| ·Orientational Metaphors | 第20-21页 |
| ·Ontological Metaphors | 第21页 |
| ·The Working Mechanism of Conceptual Metaphor | 第21-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Lexical Meaning and Lexical Meaning Extension | 第25-34页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction of Traditional Lexical Meaning Study | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Brief Study of Lexical Meaning in Ancient Times | 第25页 |
| ·The Brief Study of Lexical Meaning in Recent Times | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Brief Study of Lexical Meaning from the Cognitive View | 第26-27页 |
| ·Lexical Meaning Extension | 第27-33页 |
| ·The Definition of Lexical Meaning Extension | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Causes of Lexical Meaning Extension | 第28页 |
| ·The Result of Lexical Meaning Extension-Polysemy | 第28-33页 |
| ·The Definition of Polysemy | 第29页 |
| ·The Classical Approach to Polysemy | 第29-31页 |
| ·Cognitive Polysemy | 第31-33页 |
| ·Summary | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter 4 The Influence of Metaphor on the Extension of Meaning about Weather Conditions | 第34-56页 |
| ·Cognitive Mechanism of Lexical Meaning Extension | 第34-39页 |
| ·Categorization and Prototype Theory | 第34-36页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction of Categorization and Prototype Theory | 第34-35页 |
| ·Polysemy as a Prototypical Category | 第35-36页 |
| ·Image Schema | 第36-39页 |
| ·The Definition of Image Schema | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Characteristics of Image Schema | 第37页 |
| ·Image Schema and Polysemy | 第37-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39页 |
| ·The Working Mechanism of Metaphorical Extension of Lexical Meaning | 第39-56页 |
| ·The Definition of Metaphorical Extension | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Bridge of Lexical Metaphorical Extension-Domain Mapping | 第40-41页 |
| ·The Models of Metaphorical Extension of Lexical Meaning about Weather | 第41-44页 |
| ·The Working Mechanism of Metaphorical Extension of Lexical Meaning and Polysemy | 第44-48页 |
| ·The Metaphorical Extension of Lexical Meaning and Conversion of Parts of Speech | 第48-55页 |
| ·The General Idea of Conversion of Parts of Speech and Metaphorical Extension of Lexical Meaning | 第49-51页 |
| ·The Patterns of Metaphorical Conversion and the Extension of Lexical Meaning | 第51-55页 |
| ·Summary | 第55-56页 |
| Chapter 5 A Case Study:Fog | 第56-65页 |
| ·The Definition of Fog | 第56-57页 |
| ·The Protomeaning of Fog | 第57-58页 |
| ·The Image Schema of Fog | 第58-59页 |
| ·The Models of Metaphorical Meaning Extension of Fog | 第59-61页 |
| ·Metaphorical Conversion of Parts of Speech of Fog | 第61-63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第65-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-70页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第70-71页 |
| 个人简历 | 第71页 |
| 发表的学术论文 | 第71页 |
