| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-20页 |
| ·The Literature Review on the Study of Metaphor | 第11-17页 |
| ·The Rhetorical View on Metaphor | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Semantic View on Metaphor | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Pragmatic View on Metaphor | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Cognitive View on Metaphor | 第14-17页 |
| ·The Significance of Studying the Systematicity and Coherence of Conceptual Metaphors | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Objective and Organization of the Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two The Study on the Four Basic Elements of Conceptual Metaphor | 第20-33页 |
| ·The Study on the Source and Target Domains | 第20-23页 |
| ·The Metaphoric Concept and Non-Metaphoric Concept | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Concepts in the Source and Target Domains | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Distinction Between the Source and Target Domains | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Study on the Experiential Basis | 第23-27页 |
| ·The Experiential Gestalt | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Image Schemas | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Embodied Mind Hypothesis | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Study on the Mapping | 第27-33页 |
| ·The Nature of the Mapping | 第27-28页 |
| ·Types of the Mapping | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Inheritance Hierarchy of Mapping | 第30-32页 |
| ·Constraints on the Mappings | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Three The Systematicity of Conceptual Metaphors | 第33-42页 |
| ·Dead Metaphor, Conventional Metaphor, and Novel Metaphor | 第34-35页 |
| ·Dead Metaphor and Conventional Metaphor | 第34-35页 |
| ·Novel Metaphor | 第35页 |
| ·The Structural Metaphors | 第35-37页 |
| ·Metaphorical Entailment | 第35-36页 |
| ·Highlighting and Hiding | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Orientational Metaphors | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Internal Systematicity of a Single Orientational Metaphor | 第38-39页 |
| ·The External Systematicity Across Orientational Metaphors | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Ontological Metaphors | 第40-42页 |
| ·Entity and Substance Metaphors | 第40-41页 |
| ·Personification | 第41-42页 |
| Chapter Four The Coherence of Conceptual Metaphors | 第42-55页 |
| ·The Coherence Between Two Conceptual Metaphors | 第42-44页 |
| ·The Coherence Across Conceptual Metaphors | 第44-49页 |
| ·The Coherence Across Conceptual Metaphors Within the Same Source Domain | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Coherence Across Conceptual Metaphors with Regard to the Same Target Domain | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Coherence Across Different Conceptual Metaphors | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Coherence Between Conceptual Metaphors and the Culture | 第49-55页 |
| ·The Cultural Values Embedded in Conceptual Metaphors | 第50页 |
| ·Universal Conceptual Metaphors Through Various Cultures | 第50-52页 |
| ·Cultural-specific Conceptual Metaphors | 第52-55页 |
| Chapter Five Case Study: The Systematicity and Coherence of Idea Metaphors in English and Chinese | 第55-99页 |
| ·The Systematicity and Coherence of Idea Metaphors in English | 第55-70页 |
| ·The Systematicity of Principal Idea Metaphors in English | 第56-68页 |
| ·The Coherence of Principal Idea Metaphors in English | 第68-70页 |
| ·The Systematicity and Coherence of Idea Metaphors in Chinese | 第70-95页 |
| ·The Idea-as-People Metaphor in Chinese | 第71-78页 |
| ·The Idea-as-Plant Metaphor in Chinese | 第78-83页 |
| ·The Idea-as-Object Metaphor in Chinese | 第83-89页 |
| ·The Idea-as-Food Metaphor in Chinese | 第89-95页 |
| ·The Comparison of the Principal Metaphors in English and Chinese | 第95-99页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第99-101页 |
| Bibliography | 第101-105页 |
