| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-4页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第4-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第11-15页 |
| ·Purpose of the Research | 第11-13页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第13-14页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter Two COGNITIVE AND FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON METAPHOR | 第15-33页 |
| ·Cognitive Perspective: Conceptual Metaphor | 第15-22页 |
| ·The nature of metaphor | 第15-16页 |
| ·The working mechanism: cross-domain mapping | 第16-18页 |
| ·The grounding of metaphor | 第18-19页 |
| ·The classification of metaphor | 第19-22页 |
| ·Orientational metaphor | 第19-20页 |
| ·Ontological metaphor | 第20-22页 |
| ·Structural metaphor | 第22页 |
| ·Functional Perspective: Grammatical Metaphor | 第22-32页 |
| ·Lexical metaphor and grammatical metaphor | 第23-25页 |
| ·Congruent and metaphorical | 第25-26页 |
| ·Ideational grammatical metaphor | 第26-31页 |
| ·Transference between processes | 第29-30页 |
| ·The transference within one process | 第30-31页 |
| ·Nominalization | 第31-32页 |
| ·Summary | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Three CONSTRUCTION OF ECOLOGICAL METAPHOR | 第33-51页 |
| ·Defining Ecology | 第33-38页 |
| ·What is the ‘Ecology’concept: the ‘Ecology’concept we live by | 第33-34页 |
| ·Defining “Ecology”from cognitive perspective | 第34-35页 |
| ·Ecology, literature and ecological thinking | 第35-37页 |
| ·Ecology, linguistics and metaphor | 第37-38页 |
| ·Defining Ecological Metaphor | 第38-50页 |
| ·Cognitive perspective: ecological conceptual metaphor | 第38-42页 |
| ·Ecological orientational metaphor: UP/DOWN metaphor | 第39-40页 |
| ·Ecological ontological metaphor: Silent Spring | 第40-41页 |
| ·Ecological structural metaphor: WATER IS MONEY | 第41-42页 |
| ·Functional perspective: grammatical metaphor in consonant with ecology | 第42-50页 |
| ·Activation of tokens | 第44页 |
| ·Activation of experiences | 第44-45页 |
| ·Ambient structures or dummy subject: prop it and existential there | 第45页 |
| ·Activation of circumstances | 第45-46页 |
| ·Creative processes and cognate objects | 第46页 |
| ·Reciprocal verbs, reflexive verbs and ergative verbs | 第46-48页 |
| ·Nominalization | 第48-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter Four ECOLOGICAL METAPHOR IN THE CHINESE CONTEXT | 第51-69页 |
| ·Analysis of Ecological Conceptual Metaphors of Water | 第51-62页 |
| ·Ecological orientational metaphor of water: SHANG/XIA metaphors | 第52-54页 |
| ·Ecological ontological metaphor of water: WATER IS A PERSON | 第54-59页 |
| ·Ecological structural metaphor of water：WATER IS MONEY | 第59-62页 |
| ·Grammatical Metaphors in the Chinese Water Context | 第62-67页 |
| ·Nominalization | 第62-64页 |
| ·Transference between processes: activation of Experiences | 第64-66页 |
| ·The transference within one process: reciprocal verbs | 第66-67页 |
| ·Summary | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第69-72页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第69-70页 |
| ·Chief Contributions | 第70-71页 |
| ·Areas for Further Research | 第71-72页 |
| REFERENCES | 第72-74页 |
