| Acknowledgments | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| 1.1 Rationale of the study | 第10-12页 |
| 1.2 Significance of the study | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第14-38页 |
| 2.1 A brief review of the study of metaphor | 第14-21页 |
| 2.1.1 Early Studies of metaphor in the general sense | 第14-16页 |
| 2.1.2 Metaphor from the Lexicon-grammatical Perspective | 第16-21页 |
| 2.2 A systemic-functional approach to the study of metaphor | 第21-23页 |
| 2.2.1 Congruence and incongruence | 第21-22页 |
| 2.2.2 Definition of grammatical metaphor | 第22-23页 |
| 2.3 Different aspects of grammatical metaphor | 第23-38页 |
| 2.3.1 Ideational grammatical metaphor | 第23-30页 |
| 2.3.2 Interpersonal grammatical metaphor | 第30-34页 |
| 2.3.3 Textual grammatical metaphor | 第34-38页 |
| Chapter 3 The Application of Grammatical Metaphor to Solving Students’Writing Problems | 第38-66页 |
| 3.1 The difficulties and problems the Chinese college students meet when they write compositions | 第38-44页 |
| 3.1.1 Grammar mistakes | 第39-40页 |
| 3.1.2 Topical structure analysis | 第40-41页 |
| 3.1.3 Theme | 第41-44页 |
| 3.1.4 Informality of words | 第44页 |
| 3.2 Nominalization used to improve sentence structures | 第44-51页 |
| 3.2.1 Definition of nominalization | 第44-46页 |
| 3.2.2 Improvement of the lexical density in the sentence by nominalization | 第46-51页 |
| 3.3 Grammatical cohesive devices served to enhance contextual coherence | 第51-59页 |
| 3.3.1 Cohesion and coherence | 第51-55页 |
| 3.3.2 Thematic progression served as an important manifestation of text cohesion | 第55-59页 |
| 3.4 Ways of transferring students’proper use of metaphors from their mother languages to their target languages | 第59-66页 |
| 3.4.1 Influence of reading on L2 writing | 第60-61页 |
| 3.4.2 Teaching strategies | 第61-66页 |
| Chapter 4 Data-based study | 第66-77页 |
| 4.1 Objectives | 第66页 |
| 4.2 Experiment | 第66-67页 |
| 4.2.1 Participants | 第66页 |
| 4.2.2 Procedures | 第66-67页 |
| 4.3 Result and analysis | 第67-75页 |
| 4.3.1 Data presentation | 第67-73页 |
| 4.3.2 Data Analysis | 第73-74页 |
| 4.3.3 Reflection of the study | 第74-75页 |
| 4.4 Result of the survey | 第75-77页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第77-79页 |
| Bibliography | 第79-82页 |
| 发表的学术论文 | 第82-83页 |
