| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Aims and Significance of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-33页 |
| ·Linguistic Features of Metaphors | 第17-21页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor and Language | 第17-19页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Linguistic Features of Metaphors | 第19-21页 |
| ·Metaphor and Collocation | 第21-26页 |
| ·Research on Metaphors and Collocations | 第21-24页 |
| ·Constructions in Metaphors | 第24-26页 |
| ·Metaphors of Speech Organs | 第26-31页 |
| ·Speech Organ Metaphors in English | 第27-29页 |
| ·Speech Organ Metaphors in Chinese | 第29-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第33-46页 |
| ·MIP: Identifying Metaphors in Language | 第33-37页 |
| ·MIP | 第33-35页 |
| ·Lexical Units in English and Chinese | 第35-37页 |
| ·The Word Net and SUMO Method | 第37-43页 |
| ·Word Net | 第38-39页 |
| ·The SUMO Method: Identify Metaphors in Thought | 第39-41页 |
| ·Procedures | 第41-43页 |
| ·Description of Corpus and Dictionary | 第43-45页 |
| ·The English Corpus | 第43-44页 |
| ·The Chinese Corpus | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Dictionaries | 第45页 |
| ·Summary | 第45-46页 |
| Chapter Four Metaphors of Speech Organs | 第46-110页 |
| ·Distributions of Metaphorically Used Words | 第46-62页 |
| ·The Distributions of the Metaphorically Used Words in English | 第46-53页 |
| ·The Distributions of the Metaphorically Used Words in Chinese | 第53-62页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphors of Speech Organs in English | 第62-78页 |
| ·LIP AS AN OBJECT | 第62-69页 |
| ·MOUTH AS A CONTAINER | 第69-72页 |
| ·TONGUE AS AN OBJECT OF MANIPULATION | 第72-76页 |
| ·TEETH AS A VALUABLE OBJECT | 第76-78页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphors of Speech Organs in Chinese | 第78-84页 |
| ·唇舌 (LIP AND TONGUE)AS A VALUABLE OBJECT | 第78-80页 |
| ·嘴 (MOUTH) AS A CONTAINER | 第80-84页 |
| ·Linguistic Features of Conceptual Metaphors | 第84-105页 |
| ·Linguistic Features of Speech Organ Metaphors in English | 第84-95页 |
| ·Linguistic Features of Speech Organ Metaphors in Chinese | 第95-105页 |
| ·The Linguistic Features of Similar Conceptual Metaphors in English andChinese | 第105-108页 |
| ·LIP SERVICE vs. 唇舌 (LIP AND TONGUE) | 第105-107页 |
| ·MOUTH AS A CONTAINER vs. 嘴 (MOUTH) AS ACONTAINER | 第107-108页 |
| ·Summary | 第108-110页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第110-117页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第110-115页 |
| ·Limitations and Possible Directions for Future Studies | 第115-117页 |
| Bibliography | 第117-122页 |
| Appendices | 第122-128页 |
| Appendix i | 第122-126页 |
| Appendix ii | 第126-128页 |
| 攻读学位期间的学术成果 | 第128-129页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第129页 |
