| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-19页 |
| ·Aims of the Study | 第13页 |
| ·Motivations of the Study | 第13-17页 |
| ·The Originality of the Topic | 第13-15页 |
| ·The Easy Accessibility to the data | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Permeation of Words Belonging to War Field in Sports News | 第16-17页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第17页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第19-24页 |
| ·General Concepts Related to Sports News Reporting | 第19-22页 |
| ·Definition of Sports News Reporting | 第19-20页 |
| ·Structure of Sports News Reporting | 第20-21页 |
| ·Types of Sports News Reporting | 第21-22页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Sports News Reporting | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第24-33页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第24-30页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor | 第24-28页 |
| ·Classification of Conceptual Metaphors | 第24-27页 |
| ·Characteristics of Conceptual Metaphor | 第27-28页 |
| ·Mechanism of CMT:Cross Domain Mapping | 第28-30页 |
| ·Working Framework of the Study | 第30-31页 |
| ·Research Methods and Research Procedures | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter Four Case Analyses of SPORT IS WAR in Sports News Reporting | 第33-59页 |
| ·War and War Metaphor | 第33-36页 |
| ·Concepts of War | 第33-34页 |
| ·Concepts of War Metaphor | 第34-36页 |
| ·General Analysis of SPORT IS WAR | 第36-39页 |
| ·SPORT IS WAR Embodied in Headlines of Sports News Reporting | 第39-49页 |
| ·SPORT IS WAR in Chinese Headlines of Sports News Reporting | 第39-46页 |
| ·Entities in the Domain WAR Mapped onto the Domain SPORT | 第40-42页 |
| ·Relationships in the Domain WAR Mapped onto the Domain SPORT | 第42-44页 |
| ·Features in the Domain WAR Mapped onto the Domain SPORT | 第44-45页 |
| ·Knowledge in the Domain WAR onto the Domain SPORT | 第45-46页 |
| ·SPORT IS WAR in English Headlines of Sports News Reporting | 第46-49页 |
| ·SPORT IS WAR Embodied in Leads and Bodies of Sports New Reporting | 第49-57页 |
| ·SPORT IS WAR in the leads and bodies of Chinese Sports News Reporting | 第49-53页 |
| ·SPORT IS WAR in the Leads and Bodies of English Sports News Reporting | 第53-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第59-61页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第59-60页 |
| ·Suggestion for Further Study | 第60-61页 |
| References | 第61-66页 |
| Appendix Research data come from the following websites | 第66页 |
