| Synopsis | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第13-38页 |
| ·Metonymy in Classical Rhetoric | 第14-15页 |
| ·Metonymy –From the Perspective of Structualism and Pragmatics | 第15-19页 |
| ·Previous Pragmatic Accounts of Metonymy | 第15-18页 |
| ·Structuralist View on Metonymy | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Cognitive Theory of Metonymy | 第19-26页 |
| ·Metonymy as Being Conceptual in Nature | 第21-22页 |
| ·Metonymy as Being a Cognitive Process | 第22-24页 |
| ·Metonymy as Operating within an Idealized Cognitive Model | 第24-26页 |
| ·Understanding Metonymy | 第26-33页 |
| ·Grice’s Theory of Implicature | 第27-29页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic Account of Metonymy | 第29-33页 |
| ·Classifications of Metonymies | 第33-38页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第38-44页 |
| ·Functional Stylistics | 第38-40页 |
| ·The Cultural Foundation of Conceptual Metonymy | 第40-41页 |
| ·Language and Thought | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter 4 Analysis of Metonymy in English Political News Coverage | 第44-68页 |
| ·Quantitative Analysis | 第44-47页 |
| ·Corpus Building and Data Collection | 第44-47页 |
| ·Discussion on the Data | 第47页 |
| ·Qualitative Analysis | 第47-55页 |
| ·A Wide Variety of Metonymies in English Political News Coverage | 第47-48页 |
| ·Names in English Political News Coverage | 第48-52页 |
| ·Metonymies and the Creation of New Words and New Meanings | 第52-55页 |
| ·The Functions of Metonymy in English Political News Coverage | 第55-68页 |
| ·The Political Effects of Metonymically Used Names | 第55-58页 |
| ·Economy and Brevity | 第58-60页 |
| ·Strengthen Contextual Effects | 第60-62页 |
| ·Interpersonal Metafunction | 第62-65页 |
| ·Rhetorical Effects | 第65-68页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第68-70页 |
| Appendix Sample: Democrats Target Rumsfeld | 第70-73页 |
| Bibliography | 第73-79页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第79页 |
