| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·Human Body Idioms | 第9-10页 |
| ·Value of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review of Idiom Study | 第13-18页 |
| ·The Definition of Idioms | 第13-14页 |
| ·Historical Views of Idioms | 第14-17页 |
| ·Study of Human Body Idioms | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Basis | 第18-32页 |
| ·Embodied Philosophy | 第18-21页 |
| ·Metonymy as a Cognitive Mechanism | 第21-26页 |
| ·Metaphor as a Cognitive Mechanism | 第26-29页 |
| ·The Relationship between Metonymy and Metaphor | 第29-30页 |
| ·General Knowledge as a Cognitive Mechanism | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter 4 A Cognitive Approach to English and Chinese Human Body Idioms | 第32-72页 |
| ·Cognition of Human Body Idioms through Conceptual Metonymy | 第32-58页 |
| ·Cognition of Human Body Idioms through Conceptual Metaphor | 第58-63页 |
| ·Cognition of Human Body Idioms through General Knowledge | 第63-64页 |
| ·Cognition of Human Body Idioms through the Cooperation of Cognitive Mechanisms | 第64-72页 |
| Chapter 5 Comparison between the Cognitive Features of English and Chinese Human Body Idioms | 第72-82页 |
| ·Cognitive Commonalities | 第72-74页 |
| ·Cognitive Peculiarities | 第74-82页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第82-84页 |
| Bibliography | 第84-88页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第88-89页 |
| Main Work Achievement of the Author during Working on Master Paper | 第89页 |
