| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Overview | 第9页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第9-10页 |
| ·Organization of This Thesis | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review and Theoretical Framework | 第12-26页 |
| ·Reviews on the Study of Metaphor | 第12-13页 |
| ·Development of Metaphor | 第12页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Life Metaphor and Its Limitation | 第12-13页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第13-19页 |
| ·Characteristics of Metaphor | 第14-15页 |
| ·Classification of Metaphor | 第15-18页 |
| ·Domains and Mapping | 第18-19页 |
| ·Image Schema | 第19-26页 |
| ·Definition of Image Schema and Its Development | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Nature of Image Schema | 第20-21页 |
| ·Classification of Image Schema | 第21-24页 |
| ·The Function of Image Schema | 第24-25页 |
| ·Schema and Slot | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology and Data Collection | 第26-35页 |
| ·Corpus Linguistics and Corpus-based Approach | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Development of Corpus Linguistics | 第26-27页 |
| ·Corpus-based Approach | 第27-28页 |
| ·Building up a Database and Analyzing | 第28-35页 |
| ·Introduction to the Corpora Used in This Thesis | 第29-30页 |
| ·Creating Effective Queries | 第30-33页 |
| ·Check up on the Result and Build up a Database | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four Analysis of the Similarities between English and Chinese in Life Metaphor | 第35-44页 |
| ·PATH Schema | 第35-43页 |
| ·Life is Time | 第36-37页 |
| ·Life is a Journey | 第37-39页 |
| ·Life is a Competition or Game | 第39-40页 |
| ·Life is a Work of Art or Literature | 第40-41页 |
| ·Life is a Scientific Study | 第41-43页 |
| ·Explanations of the Similarity between English and Chinese | 第43-44页 |
| Chapter Five Analysis of the Differences between English and Chinese in Life Metaphor | 第44-53页 |
| ·Differences between English and Chinese in Life Metaphor | 第44-49页 |
| ·Container Schema | 第44-46页 |
| ·Path Schema and the Outlook on Life | 第46-49页 |
| ·Ontological Metaphor and Life as a Personal Possession | 第49页 |
| ·Explanations of the Differences between English and Chinese | 第49-53页 |
| ·The Definitions of Individualism and Collectivism | 第50-51页 |
| ·Explanations of the Differences | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第53-55页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第53页 |
| ·Contributions of the Research | 第53-54页 |
| ·Limitations | 第54-55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-58页 |
