| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO METAPHOR | 第9-12页 |
| CHAPTER 2 THE STUDY OF METAPHOR IN HISTORY | 第12-15页 |
| 2． 1 Aristotle's Rhetorical Study of Metaphor | 第12-13页 |
| 2． 2 Quintiline's Theory of Metaphor: the Substitution Theory | 第13页 |
| 2． 3 The Interactive View of Metaphor | 第13-15页 |
| CHAPTER 3 THEORETICAL BASES OF METAPHOR | 第15-28页 |
| 3．1 Cognitive Linguistics | 第15-18页 |
| 3．1．1 Categories and Gestalt Perception | 第15-16页 |
| 3．1．2 Figure /Ground Theory | 第16-17页 |
| 3．1．3 Image Schemas | 第17-18页 |
| 3． 2 Lakoff's Theory of Metaphor | 第18-28页 |
| 3．2．1 Experiential Realism | 第19页 |
| 3．2．2 Metaphorical mappings | 第19-22页 |
| 3．2．3 Experiential Bases of Metaphor | 第22-23页 |
| 3．2．4 Conceptual Metaphor and its Classification | 第23-27页 |
| 3．2．5 Conceptual and Linguistic Metaphors | 第27-28页 |
| CHAPTER 4 SPATIAL CONCEPTS AND CONTAINER METAPHOR | 第28-35页 |
| 4．1 The Prototypical Meanings of IN, OUT, LI and WAI | 第28-30页 |
| 4．2 The Event Structure Metaphor | 第30-35页 |
| CHAPTER 5 CONTAINER METAPHOR | 第35-77页 |
| 5．1 Container and its Extension | 第36-42页 |
| 5．1．1 Bodily Experience of CONTAINER Metaphor | 第36-38页 |
| 5．1．2 Entities Extended from Containers | 第38页 |
| 5．1．3 Spatial Containers | 第38-40页 |
| 5．1．4 Abstract notions as containers | 第40-42页 |
| 5．2 Features or Functions of Containers | 第42-54页 |
| 5．2．1 A container is an entity with rigidity | 第42-43页 |
| 5．2．2 A container has bounded area and volume | 第43页 |
| 5．2．3 A container can store substances | 第43-44页 |
| 5．2．4 The substances in a container can be quantified | 第44-46页 |
| 5．2．5 Different substances of containers and their functions | 第46-47页 |
| 5．2．6 A container is a black box | 第47-48页 |
| 5．2．7 Markers of containers and their functions | 第48-49页 |
| 5．2．8 Being inside the container means being safe and protected | 第49页 |
| 5．2．9 The contained part is more important | 第49-51页 |
| 5．2．10 Being inside the container means knowing and authority | 第51-52页 |
| 5．2．11 Being inside the container is under control | 第52-53页 |
| 5．2．12 Being inside the container is the process of activities | 第53-54页 |
| 5．3 Classification of CONTAINER Metaphor | 第54-75页 |
| 5．3．1 Condition as a Container | 第54-56页 |
| 5．3．2 Mental States as Containers | 第56-64页 |
| 5．3．3 Events or Activities as Containers | 第64-65页 |
| 5．3．4 Time as a Container | 第65-67页 |
| 5．3．5 Quantity as a Container | 第67页 |
| 5．3．6 Visual Fields (or Hearing, Touching Fields) as Containers | 第67-70页 |
| 5．3．7 Social Status as a Container | 第70-72页 |
| 5．3．8 Linguistic Expressions as Containers | 第72-73页 |
| 5．3．9 Causation as a Container | 第73-75页 |
| 5．4 Mapping from Source Domains to Target Domains | 第75-77页 |
| CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY | 第77-80页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第80-84页 |
| APPENDIX | 第84页 |
