| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| ·Background of the Research | 第10-11页 |
| ·Purpose of the Research | 第11-13页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-30页 |
| ·Definition of Political Discourse | 第14-16页 |
| ·Introduction to Political Discourse Analysis | 第16-17页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Political Discourse Analysis | 第17-28页 |
| ·The Perspective of Sociolinguistics | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis | 第18-23页 |
| ·Foreign Researches from the Perspective of CDA | 第18-21页 |
| ·Domestic Researches from the Perspective of CDA | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics | 第23-28页 |
| ·Foreign Researches from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics | 第23-26页 |
| ·Domestic Researches from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics | 第26-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Foundations | 第30-43页 |
| ·Introduction | 第30页 |
| ·Traditional Views on Metaphor | 第30-31页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第31-37页 |
| ·The Definition of Conceptual Metaphor | 第31-33页 |
| ·The Working Mechanism of Conceptual Metaphor | 第33-36页 |
| ·Metaphor and Ideology | 第36-37页 |
| ·Frame Theory | 第37-42页 |
| ·Introduction to Fillmore's Research into Frame | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Foundations of Lakoff s Frame Theory | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Explanatory Power of Frame Theory for Metaphors in Political Discourse | 第40-42页 |
| ·Summary | 第42-43页 |
| Chapter Four Contrastive Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors and Frames in Chinese andAmerican Educational Speeches | 第43-73页 |
| ·Introduction | 第43页 |
| ·Research Methodology and Data Base | 第43-46页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第43-45页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第45-46页 |
| ·Dominant Conceptual Metaphors in Chinese Educational Speeches | 第46-56页 |
| ·Journey Metaphors | 第47-51页 |
| ·Plant Metaphors | 第51-53页 |
| ·Building Metaphors | 第53-55页 |
| ·Balance Metaphors | 第55-56页 |
| ·Dominant Conceptual Metaphors in American Educational Speeches | 第56-63页 |
| ·Journey Metaphors | 第57-59页 |
| ·War Metaphors | 第59-60页 |
| ·Commodity Metaphors | 第60-62页 |
| ·Plant Metaphors | 第62-63页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in Chinese and American Educational Speeches | 第63-67页 |
| ·Summary of Conceptual Metaphors Used in the Two Corpora | 第63页 |
| ·Similarities and Differences in Conceptual Metaphors | 第63-67页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis of Frames in Chinese and American Educational Speeches | 第67-71页 |
| ·Summary of Frames Used in the Two Corpora | 第68页 |
| ·Similarities and Differences in Frames | 第68-71页 |
| ·Summary | 第71-73页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第73-76页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Thesis | 第73-74页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study | 第74-76页 |
| Bibliography | 第76-82页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第82-83页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第83-87页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第87页 |
