| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-14页 |
| Chapter 2 A Historical Review of Metaphor Study | 第14-22页 |
| ·A rough classification of previous metaphor study | 第14-17页 |
| ·The traditional views | 第14-15页 |
| ·The 20th century views | 第15-17页 |
| ·Remarks on the previous metaphor study | 第17-22页 |
| ·Most studies are confined to lexical level | 第17-18页 |
| ·Some researchers have been aware of grammatical metaphor | 第18-22页 |
| Chapter 3 An Introduction of Halliday's Grammatical Metaphor Theory | 第22-36页 |
| ·Halliday's initial treatment of grammatical metaphor | 第22-27页 |
| ·Lexical metaphor and grammatical metaphor | 第22-24页 |
| ·Classification of grammatical metaphor | 第24-27页 |
| ·Others' study on grammatical metaphor | 第27-29页 |
| ·Geoff Thompson | 第28页 |
| ·Goatly | 第28页 |
| ·Martin | 第28-29页 |
| ·Some Chinese researchers | 第29页 |
| ·Halliday's new development of Grammatical Metaphor Theory | 第29-33页 |
| ·Remarks on Halliday's Grammatical Metaphor Theory | 第33-36页 |
| ·Contributions | 第33-34页 |
| ·Limitations | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter 4 Other Discussions about Grammatical Metaphor | 第36-43页 |
| ·Reconsidering of "congruent" and "grammatical" | 第36-42页 |
| ·Halliday's interpretation of the terms | 第36-40页 |
| ·Thompson's interpretation of the terms | 第40-41页 |
| ·Martin's interpretation of the terms | 第41页 |
| ·Fan Wenfang's interpretation of the terms | 第41-42页 |
| ·Summary | 第42-43页 |
| Chapter 5 A Cognitive Perspective on Grammatical Metaphor | 第43-61页 |
| ·Metaphorical nature of language and grammar | 第43-44页 |
| ·Metaphorical nature of language | 第43-44页 |
| ·Metaphorical nature of grammar | 第44页 |
| ·Cognitive view on language structure | 第44-46页 |
| ·Grammar is symbolic in character | 第44-45页 |
| ·Grammar is imagic in nature | 第45-46页 |
| ·Categorization | 第46-56页 |
| ·Categorization by classical approach | 第47-48页 |
| ·Categorization by prototype | 第48-51页 |
| ·Grammatical Classes by prototype | 第51-54页 |
| ·Cognitive grounds for transformation of grammatical classes | 第54-56页 |
| ·The nature of "congruent" | 第56-59页 |
| ·The nature of grammatical metaphor | 第59-61页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第61-65页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第61-62页 |
| ·Space for further research | 第62-63页 |
| ·Implications for English teaching and learning | 第63-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-68页 |
