| Introduction | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Theoretical background | 第9-23页 |
| 1.1 Contemporary view on metaphor: a matter of thought | 第9-20页 |
| 1.1.1 Conceptual metaphor | 第9-11页 |
| 1.1.2 Working mechanism of conceptual metaphor | 第11-17页 |
| 1.1.3 Feature of conceptual metaphor | 第17-20页 |
| 1.2 Conceptual metaphor and the concepts of space and time | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter Two A comparative study of TIME AS SPACE metaphor in English and Chinese: similarities and differences | 第23-45页 |
| 2.1 Horizontal axis: FRONT-BACK orientation of time in English and Chinese | 第23-40页 |
| 2.1.1 Case 1: Time-Moving metaphor in English and Chinese | 第24-32页 |
| 2.1.2 Case 2: Ego-Moving metaphor in English and Chinese | 第32-39页 |
| 2.1.3 Duality: mixture of Case 1 and Case 2 in English andChinese | 第39-40页 |
| 2.2 Vertical axis: UP-DOWN orientation of time in English andChinese | 第40-45页 |
| 2.2.1 UP-DOWN orientation of time in Chinese | 第41页 |
| 2.2.2 UP-DOWN orientation of time in English | 第41-45页 |
| Chapter Three Causes of the similarities and differences | 第45-55页 |
| 3.1 Causes of the similarities | 第45-49页 |
| 3.1.1 Common embodied bodily experience: physical basis for conceptual metaphor | 第45-48页 |
| 3.1.2 Common embodied imaginative thought: mental basis for conceptual metaphor | 第48-49页 |
| 3.2 Causes of the differences | 第49-55页 |
| 3.2.1 Different ways of space-time thinking | 第50-52页 |
| 3.2.2 Different cultural patterns | 第52-55页 |
| Conclusion | 第55-57页 |
| References | 第57-62页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第62页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第67-71页 |
