| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第9页 |
| 1.2 Research Significance | 第9-10页 |
| 1.3 Structure of the Thesis | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第11-21页 |
| 2.1 Metaphorical Theory | 第11-16页 |
| 2.1.1 Traditional Metaphorical Perspectives | 第11-12页 |
| 2.1.2 Cognitive Metaphorical Research | 第12-16页 |
| 2.1.2.1 The Development of Cognitive Metaphor | 第12-13页 |
| 2.1.2.2 Conceptual Metaphor | 第13-14页 |
| 2.1.2.3 Mechanism of Conceptual Metaphor:Mapping | 第14-16页 |
| 2.2 The Present Contrastive Researches of War Metaphors in English and Chinese | 第16-20页 |
| 2.2.1 Method of War Metaphor used in Chinese and English | 第17-18页 |
| 2.2.2 Previous studies of war metaphors and their limitations | 第18-20页 |
| 2.3 Summary | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Three The Corpus | 第21-27页 |
| 3.1 Description of Corpus | 第21-22页 |
| 3.2 Criteria for War Metaphor Identification | 第22-23页 |
| 3.3 Description of Chinese Corpus and English Corpus | 第23-25页 |
| 3.4 Summary | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Four The Frequency and Distribution of War Metaphors inEnglish and Chinese | 第27-48页 |
| 4.1 The Distribution of War Metaphors between English and Chinese | 第27-42页 |
| 4.1.1 Distribution of Semantic Fields | 第27-38页 |
| 4.1.1.1 Sports,Daily life,Culture and Art and Academics | 第27-32页 |
| 4.1.1.2 Politics,Economics and Education | 第32-35页 |
| 4.1.1.3 Medical field,Religion and Law | 第35-38页 |
| 4.1.2 Distribution of Formality | 第38-40页 |
| 4.1.3 Diachronic Distribution | 第40-42页 |
| 4.2 The Causes of Similarities and Differences of Distribution | 第42-46页 |
| 4.2.1 The Causes of Similarities and Differences of Semantic Fields | 第42-45页 |
| 4.2.2 The Causes of Differences of Distribution of Formality | 第45页 |
| 4.2.3 The Causes of Differences of Diachronic Distribution | 第45-46页 |
| 4.3 Conclusion | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter Five Part of Speeches of English and Chinese War Metaphorical Words | 第48-56页 |
| 5.1 English Noun Preference and Chinese Verb Preference | 第48-49页 |
| 5.2 English Noun Preference and its discourse function | 第49-53页 |
| 5.3 Chinese Verb Preference | 第53-54页 |
| 5.4 Summary | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| 6.1 Main Findings of Study | 第56-57页 |
| 6.2 Limitations for Further Study | 第57页 |
| 6.3 Suggestions for Further Study | 第57-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-61页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第61页 |
