| Synopsis | 第1-8页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| ·Theoretical Background of the Study | 第8页 |
| ·The Object and Research Questions of the Study | 第8-10页 |
| ·Methodology of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·General Framework of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第12-19页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Metaphor | 第12-15页 |
| ·Interaction theory of metaphor | 第12-14页 |
| ·The cognitive study of metaphor | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Study of Grammatical Metaphor | 第15-17页 |
| ·The Study of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Various Discourse | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Background | 第19-34页 |
| ·A Systemic Functional Approach to Grammatical Metaphor | 第19-22页 |
| ·The multi-levels of language and realization | 第19页 |
| ·Congruent and incongruent realizations | 第19-22页 |
| ·Ideational Grammatical Metaphor—One of the Three Types of Grammatical Metaphors | 第22-31页 |
| ·Ideational grammatical metaphor at the initial stage —metaphors of transitivity | 第23-25页 |
| ·Further development of ideational grammatical metaphor | 第25-28页 |
| ·Simplified version proposed by Hu Zhuanglin | 第28-31页 |
| ·Register Proposed by Halliday | 第31-34页 |
| ·Register | 第31-32页 |
| ·Register and genre | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter 4 Methodology | 第34-38页 |
| ·Research Design | 第34页 |
| ·Establishment of Corpus | 第34-36页 |
| ·Analysis Methods | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter 5 Data Analyses and Results | 第38-55页 |
| ·Defining the Characteristics of Business English Contract | 第38-40页 |
| ·Analyses of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Business English Contract Corpus | 第40-52页 |
| ·Occurrence & frequency of ideational grammatical metaphor in business English contract discourse | 第40-42页 |
| ·Downgrading results from ideational grammatical metaphor | 第42-52页 |
| ·Results of the Analyses | 第52-55页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第55-59页 |
| ·Research Findings | 第55-56页 |
| ·Implications | 第56-57页 |
| ·Limitations | 第57页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Study | 第57-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-62页 |
| 科研成果 | 第62-63页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第63-64页 |
| 导师及作者简介 | 第64-65页 |
| Abstract | 第65-70页 |
| 摘要 | 第70-73页 |
