| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Contents | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| 1. Background of the Study | 第9-10页 |
| 2. Necessity and Significance of the Study | 第10页 |
| 3. Structure of the Thesis | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第12-41页 |
| ·A Review of Conceptual Metaphor | 第12-28页 |
| ·Background | 第12-20页 |
| ·Orientational Metaphor | 第20-21页 |
| ·Ontological Metaphor | 第21-23页 |
| ·Structural Metaphor | 第23-24页 |
| ·Philosophical Foundation——Experientialism | 第24-26页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphors in Literature | 第26-28页 |
| ·A Review of Color Metaphor | 第28-40页 |
| ·The Eleven Colors | 第29-31页 |
| ·The Working Mechanism of Color Metaphor | 第31-34页 |
| ·The Classifications of Color Metaphor | 第34-40页 |
| ·Summary | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Two Research Procedure | 第41-44页 |
| ·Willlam Shakespeare Corpus | 第41页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第41-42页 |
| ·Search Words——the 11 Color Terms | 第41页 |
| ·Concordance Extraction | 第41页 |
| ·Metaphor Identification | 第41-42页 |
| ·Non-metaphor Exclusion | 第42页 |
| ·Data Sorting and Classification | 第42-43页 |
| ·Data Interpretation | 第43-44页 |
| Chapter Three Color Metaphors in Shakespeare's Works | 第44-60页 |
| ·Colors as Time | 第44-47页 |
| ·Black as the Night | 第44-45页 |
| ·Grey as the Dawn,the Dusk and the Old Age | 第45页 |
| ·Green as the New Period of entities and Young Period of life | 第45-46页 |
| ·Yellow as the Declining Days | 第46-47页 |
| ·Colors as Entiry or Substance | 第47-49页 |
| ·Black as the Beard,the flea and the words | 第47-48页 |
| ·White as the People Dressed in White | 第48页 |
| ·Red as the Red Rose | 第48页 |
| ·Green as the Grass | 第48页 |
| ·Blue as sky,ocean,tears and eyes | 第48-49页 |
| ·Colors as the Emotions and Characters of Human | 第49-53页 |
| ·Black as the Double Sides of People | 第49-50页 |
| ·White as the Double Sides of People | 第50-51页 |
| ·Red as Shame,Passion and Anger | 第51页 |
| ·Green as Juvenile and Inexperience | 第51-52页 |
| ·Yellow as Villainy and Suspicion | 第52页 |
| ·Blue as Scare and Dullness | 第52-53页 |
| ·Brown as sweetness and hideousness | 第53页 |
| ·Colors as the Characters of Non-human Entities | 第53-58页 |
| ·Black as Death,Revenge,Depression,Secret,Bad luck,Evil,Desperation,Contemptibility and Sin | 第53-55页 |
| ·White as Surrender | 第55-56页 |
| ·Red as Importance,Happiness,Fame | 第56页 |
| ·Green as Freshness,Luxuriance | 第56-57页 |
| ·Yellow as Oldness | 第57页 |
| 3 4.6 Blue as Bruise and Coldness | 第57页 |
| ·Purple as Dignitary | 第57-58页 |
| ·Colors as Comparative and Paratactic Concepts | 第58-59页 |
| ·Summary | 第59-60页 |
| Conclusion | 第60-61页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第61-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-64页 |
| Appendix | 第64-68页 |
| 硕士在读期间发表论文简介 | 第68页 |